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U.S. CONSTITUTION STUDY this has been the most successful constitu that it is a study prepared tor this project as UNDERWAY tion in the history of the world and it is in a preliminary to the final comprehensive cumbent upon the scholarly community to study. present explanations and ultimate progress Publication of studies as oompleted will at OF .lllASSACBUS£T.r8 Most of the projected studies-and prop tract world-wide attention in the scholarly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES erly so-will be directed toward the impact and book-buying communities. Such publi of the constitution upon the American cation will also provide an early opportunity Monday, April 21, 1980 people and the American way of life. These for critique and criticism, and will furnish • Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, as we will be national studies. But there is an in guidellnes· for. subsequent studies. Editing ternational role which likewise demands will precede the enter the decade of the 1980's, it is ap. study and report: "The Influence of the eventual publication of the nation-by-nation proprlate that we remind ourselves United States Constitution Abroad." collection. that this Nation will soon celebrate The 200th anniversary of the United The prellminary articles and monographs the 200th anniversary ot the ratifica States Constitution Is recognized as an with their own citations to documentary au tion of the Constitution of the United event of world-wide significance. The forma thority will provide the scholarly underpin States of America. In celebration and tion of the United States Constitution was nings for the major one-volume comprehen- commemoration of that 200th anniver the most important landmark in the history sive study. · sary, I am pleased to call attention to of constitutions. This was the first single III-THJ: PRO.JECT Is the Important scholarly work now document constitution, and by far the Is longe~t-lived. The whole world has looked to Objective scholarship the one indispens being undertaken on the "Influence of the United States experience as an impera able guidepost for this project. The careful the U.S. Constitution Abroad." Our tive to consider in each country's own con assessment of the reception of the United Constitution is not only the first and stitution-making. And nearly every nation States Constitution by other nations must. longest lived constitution. but by far has demanded an examination of the be free from bias, from chauvinism and the most influential. "Philadelphia formula" as a prelude to lt.s from self-effacement. This will not be a own constitution drafting. publlc relations exercise in American ag The authors and editors of this fun grandizement. The whole story must be damental study are Albert P. Blaus What must be examined are the ways · in which told, "warts and all." tein, professor of law, and Jay A. United States constitutional guidelines were The project must be interdisciplinary. For Sigler, professor of political science, accepted, adopted, adapted, avoided and ab it requires· ihe cross-tertlllzation of law, his both at Rutgers-the State University jured during the two centuries past. tory and political science to provide the of New Jersey. Both are well qualified What will result, however, will be more comprehensive background and the compre to undertake this vital task. Professor than a scholarly evaluation of the influence hensive analyses that scholarship demands. of the United States Constitution abroad. Yet scholarship inust never neglect the Blaustein is coeditor of the 15-volume fact that the making of a constitution is one work. "Constitutions of the Countries For by studying and analyzing the United States paradigm in a multiplicity of foreign of the most critical event.a in nationhood. of· the World" and tt.s companion 6- And the drama must not be lost in the foot volume work, "Constitutions of Depen contexts we will inevitably gain greater in sight.a into the meaning of our constitution noting. dencies and Special Sovereignties." He and it.s continuing viabillty. And the expla Nor can the students of the influence of is also author of such works as "The nation of how the United States Constitu the United States Constitution limit their American Lawyer," "Desegregation tion influenced the other constitutions of thinking to the spread of democratic ideals and the Law," "Civil Rights and the the world should contribute to it.s continu which had their first successful flowering in ing influence. this country. The very concept of a single Black American." and "The Military documentary constitution Is peculiarly and American Society." Professor II-THE PLA1' American. On the eve of the 2ooth anniver Sigler's works include "The Legal End" Product A: A one-volume (500-600 sary of the United States Constitution only Sources of Public Polley," "American pages) trade booL This Is to be a compre five of the world's 165 nations Is without · Rights Policies,.. and "Contemporary hensive study. tracing the history and eval such a charter: the United Kingdom. American Government." Professors uating the significance of the influence of Canada, New Zealand, Israel and Saudi Blaustein and Sigler have worked to the United States Constitution upon the Arabia. And the adoption of a . Canadian gether before, coediting the com constitutional systems of the other nations Constitution Is expected well before 198'1. memorative volume, "Independence of the world Publication date: Fall. 1986. . · Even in the totalitarian states-even in End Product B: A two-volume <15~2000 the nations which deny their clti7.enry a bill Documents of the Nations. of the pages) library reference documentary. col of right.a-there is often a United States· in World." lecting the nation-by-nation analyses which fluence. This influence is manifested in in Professor Blaustein was a consultant will form the research background for the stitutional and structural contributions: the in the preparation of the Bangladesh trade book. Publication date: Fall, 1987. concept of ·federalism, a presidential system, Constitution of 1972 and the Cambo Telling the story of the influence of the an electoral college, or a separate national dian Draft Constitution of 197 4. In United States Constitution is not only a Judiciary appointed by the president with 1979, he was special counsel to Prime task of years but a task which demands a the approval of a parliamentary upper Minister Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa on team effort. "What Must Be Done" at the chamber. outset Is to assemble the team-a team of There will be no equality in the sire and the preparation of the new Zimbabwe constitutionalist.a which includes American scope of these studies. "Great love letters Constitution, and he has now been as well as foreign scholars and which is in· are only written to great women." The chief named adviser on the revision of the terdisciplinary in scope. draftsman of the new Zimbabwe Constitu Constitution of Korea. duct.s the prospectus outline which has been professor o~ politics and a Czech historian. of capitalism. These wW be among the prepared be reprinted. And some of the major studies-such as lesser reports. those prepared for India and Qermany The major studies-those which will be Tm: IBPLtJDe& 01' m U.S. COBSTITUTI01' demand their own sub-teams. fortbcomlpg about the national constitu ABROAD The country-by-country analyses will not tions most influenced by the United States 1-TBB PllOLOGUS await 1987 publication. They will be pub pattern-will be • • • by continent: The end of the 1980'& will commemorate lished seriatim as completed in scholarly re South America: Argentina. Brazil, Venezu- the 2ooth anniversary of the United States views devoted to law, history and political ela. . Constitution-drafted in l '18'1 and ratified in science. And some of the analyses may be Europe: P'rande, Germany. 1'189. And scboiarly studies. as well as public published as monographs. Each will be ac Asta: IJ;ldia. Japan, the Philippines. celebrations, must mark these event.a. For companied by an editor's note indicating Africa: Liberia, Nigeria. e This .. bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertiom which are not spoken by the Member on the floor.
CXXVI---534-Part 7 8474 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 From their very beginnings all of the an important part of constitutionalism in Chris Bading, Phillip L. Bean, Francis P. Latin American states borrowed heavily India and the Indian Supreme .Court uses Bielski, Michael S. Brewer, Minos Darga.kis, from the United States model and large sec United States Supreme Court opinions as Christopher W. Fahenstock, Frank Ham tions of so many of their constitutions are precedent. mond, Glenn M. Hasenei, Anthony Luns nothing more than verbatim Spanish trans These are only a few of the major coun ford, Brian K. Mollohan, Joseph P~ Morgan. lation of the language adopted in Philadel tries whose constitutions have been so Michael G. Nazelrod, Stephen E. Sprouse, phia. One story which must be told is how strongly influenced by the United States Kevin J. Taylor. the United States concepts fared in transla model. What is also significant is the fact Dennis J. Caudill, Mark D. Elliott, Vincent tion. Another story is reflected sometimes in that the influence has been continuous J. Halaj, Steven G. Kline, Michael H. Kolb, continuity and sometimes in change. The Argentina, borrowed from United States ideas. L. Hill, Diana M. Kenyon, Celeste A. Kil Brazil and Venezuela studies are the most And there are many other examples gore, Mary Ann Kingsley, Kimberly A. interesting, as they trace the viability of which could be cited and will be document Otter, Dawn M. Pecorino, Lisa M. Tamber Uuited States precepts during various his ed as research continues. ino, Nancy L. Wilson, Brenda L. Worth, torical periods under various types of gov For the historical approaches, original Cindy M. Zeitschel, Deana Lynn Olinger, ernments. texts, memoirs, letters, individual inter- · Robin Olsen. While there is le3s word-for·· Word United views, oral history and other documentary Ktmberly D. Aquino, Tina M. Geamon, States influence in the constitutions oi s:rurces will be employed. The studies will Noel L. Hively, Eun Joo Lee, Lisa M. Mul France and \Vest Germany th'l.n in the con not be speculative. but rather grounded laney, Lisa M. Novak, Teresa A. Simmons, stitutions of Latin America, the actual influ upon hard data. Since the past two decades Cheryl L. Thompson, Cecilia A. Wagner, ence may be far greater. Individual rights have constituted an unparalleled era of con Tina M. Williams, Florence Lane.e are secured in these European democracies stitution-rr.aking, many of the draftsmen to a far greater extent than in the so many are still alive, and their experiences should nations in the ~\Vestern Hemisp!lere. provide a priceless souFce of information in READ BEFORE YOU VOTE TUES· Yet that is only a part of the story. The the preparation of the monographs. DAY ON THE NICARAGUAN AID United States constitutional influence was The monographs must also include consid· BILL; THE U.S. CONGRESS of major significance i.'1 Baden, Bavaria and eration of: SHOULD NOT JOIN THE SANDI· Wuerttemberg even before it played so sig M5si:1,pplicatioris and misunderstand nificant a role in the dra:ting of the jngs about the United States model! NISTAS ANJ;> RUSSIA. Weimar Constit11tion. And tile United C0mpetition between the United States Constitution-plus United States law States model and other models; HON. ROBERT E. BAUMAN yers, historians and political scientists-pro Successes and failures in the applica vided the foundation for the present West tion of the United States model Application of the United States sachusetts and Virginia Constitutions, pre model in actual practice as well as theory. • Mr. BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, earlier cursors of the United States Constitution, Specifically, thought must be given to the today I commented before the House played an influential role in the French fol1owing: regarding the leadership intention of Revolution. The United States constitution as a ratified until 1789 and the final document calling up the special rule which will symbol; · . send the $75 million Nicaraguan aid was thus of lesser import.) (2) The entire <2> The borrowed concept of "consitution history of French constitution-making has worship"; bill to conference. I am including with been influenced by United States constitu these remarks an article from Human tional philosophy even where the model has <3> The idea of a single-document consti- Events and one from the Washington not been followed. And the model was f al tution; <4> The separation of powers; Post which details. the signing of an lowed in the drafting of the current Fifth agreement between the Sandinista Republic Constitution. (3) The very many (5) Checks and balances; fra ·1co?hone natic;ns which achieved inde <6> American-style federalism; government of Nicaragua and the pendence since the end of World War II <7> Bicameralism; Soviet Union a few weeks ago. Even adopted constitutions heavily influenced by <8> Enumerated legislative powers; more interesting are the joint state United States constitutional thinking, fil. <9> The electoral college; ments in which the Sandinista leader tered through the French experience. <10) The presidential system; ship joins the Russians in seeking to Africa will provide very different studies. <11 l The amending process; justify the invasion of Afghanistan as From its very inception, Liberia adopted the <12> Judicial review; well as the Iranian holding of U;S. United States model. Nigeria, on the other (13) The idea of a bill of rights; and hostages. Honestly. my colleagues, hand, was given the more or less standard (14) Specific bill of rights safeguards and Westminster model when it achieved inde prohibitions.e how can anyone possibly justify voting pendence and has now settled upon a errunent such as this? United States type constitution. One of the COLGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL · The articles fallow: original states making up the Union of VISITS CAPITOL [Human Events, Apr. 26, 19801 South Africa-the Orange Free State-had a United States style constitution, but the NICARAGUA MOVES CLOSER TO Moscow: $75 R.t>public finally opted for the Westminst.er HON. CLARENCE D. LONG MILLION AID PROGRAM JEOPARDIZED pattern. OF MARYLAND The Carter Administration's efforts. to Japan's post World War II constitution is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTAl'IVES shovel $75 million of foreign aid into Nicara called the MacArthur Constitution-for ob gua on the grounds that we can still ween vious reasons. The Philippines Constitution Monday, April 21, 1980 the Sandinista-contrQlled government away is as much like the United. States Constitu of from communism faced tough sledding oa tion as one would expect of a former colony. • Mr. LONG Maryland. Mr. Speak Capitol Hill last week. The House leader-. The ways in which the Philippines Consti er, I welcome 55 students from the ship, in fact, cancelled a scheduled vote to tution-and its interpretation-differ is the Colgate Elementary School in Balti ease the measure through Congress when more interesting story. more who, with their teachers, Mrs. they feared the move would fail. The role of United States constitutional Rena Kelly and Mrs. Bernice Langley. Skepticism toward a Nicaraguan aid pro- ism in the Indian experience is particularly are today visiting the Capitol. . gram increased dramatically when a high interesting and p9.l'ticularly complicated. Of My constituents are studying Ameri level delegation, ostensibly led by junta course India looked to the United States can Government, and it's a pleasure member Moises Hassan but actually under Constitution for guidance in developing its the thtimb of Tomas Borge, a member of own federal system; of course India looked for me to meet with them to discuss the ruling Sandinista National Liberation to the United States Constitution for guid- _ the legislative process. This day prom Front, returned to Managua on April 12 ance in drafting its bill of rights, etc. But ises to be interesting and educational after having spent nearly a month in the India also looked to the entire United States for all of us. Soviet Union and its Eastern European sat- constitutional uperi.ence. Judicial review is The students are: ellites. · April 21, 1980 EXT,ENSIONS OF REMARKS 8475 What fueled the suspicions of many law three issues ill 1980 all had articles on the fies closely with these Third World ap makers was not the tour per se, but the fact subject, including a conspicuous report of a proaches. that the delegation, in the words of the roundtable discussion by Moscow's Latin ex Interior Minister Tomas Borge made a Washington Post's reporter in Managua, perts on Nicaragua. speech in Moscow stressing Nicaragua's "ir· "signed Joint communiques with the Soviet A critical outcome of the roundtable was revocable decision to be free." He told Union and East Germany that followed the the indication that Soviet theoreticians are Soviet Jeaders at a luncheon th.at ·Nicara Soviet line on- almost all international beginning to embrace the Ideas of Che ·Gue guans intend to "continue being the masters issues, including Afghanistan." vara on the importance of revolutionary of our own destiny." In the joint communiciue, Nicaragua, far armed struggle in Latin America. In the While that delegation was in Eastern from showing signs that it is one of the past, Guevara, while hailed as a hero in the Europe, another headed by Junta member "non-aligned" nations, as it insists, dis Cuban revolution, has been condemned for· Sergio Ramirez and Sandinista leader played a slavish devotion to Moscow's every his view that guerrilla operations can pro Bayardo Arce was touring Western Europe. foreign policy whim. Along with the Soviets, vide the key to revolutionary victories in At the same time, Daniel Ortega, a member the Nicaraguans condemned Red China, em Latin America even when taking place in a of both the Junta and the nine-man national braced Cuba and assailed NATO. The com hostile environment. But one of the partlci· directorate, visited several Latin American munique specifically attacked any Western pants in the symposium, B. I. Koval, de- countries and the Vatican. European effort to deploy "new U.S. clared: · The Nicaraguan leaders' travels came at . medium-range nuclear missile weapons," in "The experience of Nicaragua refuted pre the same time that a $75 million U.S. loan sisting this "contradicts the objectives" of viously existing distorted treatment of par to Nicaragua was stalled in Congress. Seek· detente. tisan actions, confirmed the correctness of ing new sources of aid was an important The communique welcomed the Patriotic the strategic directives of Che Guevara, em . goal of the trips. Front victory in · Rhodesia, backed "the bodied his Idea of the creation of a powerful Ramirez and Arce announced that they struggle of the Iranian people" and called people's partisan movement." Koval also de had received pledge8 of about $55 million in for the creation of an independent.Palestin clared that the Cuban and Nicaraguan expe loans, grants and emergency aid from the ian state. The statement on Afghanistan, rience showed that an· "insurrectionary European Community as well as Belgium, Orwellian in its formulation, lent aid and center" is capable of playing a key role in the Netherlands, West Germany, Sweden, comfort to the Soviet Union's invasion last bringing down various Latin governments. Austria and the special fund of the Organi December by suggesting that it was the Sergo Mikoyan, editor of Latinskaia zation of Petroleum Exporting Countries West that was interfering in Afghanistan's Amerika, made similar comments. "The im based in Vienna. internal affairs. portance of such pronouncements," said The total amount of aid obtained on the "The Soviet Union and Nicaragua," the Rothenberg, "is that they suggest rising trip to Eastern Europe has not been an communique read, "resolutely condemn the Soviet confidence in the efficacy of armed nounced. Press reports from Prague said campaign of mounting international tension insurrections in Latin America, and especial· Czechoslovakia had provided a $20 million in connection with the events in Afghani· ly Central America, a Judgment which ap. loan and a Foreign Ministry spokesman said stan, which has been launched by the impe pears reflected already in ·Soviet coverage of new East German aid would total $30 mil· rialist and reactionary forces Ci.e., not the events in El Salvador and Guatemala." lion. · Soviets but the West] ·and is aimed at sub In spite of Nicaragua's vigorous embrace The delegation to the Soviet Bloc was verting the inalienable rights of the people of Mosc<'w-and vice versa-the Administra nominally headed by Hassan, a hard-line of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan tion seems determined to toss good money leftist. The three members of the Sandi and of other peoples of the world to follow a after bad, and-the odds are that it will put nista national directorate who went on the path of progressive transformation." · some heat on Congress in the coming weeks trip are considered to be among the· most Nor is this all that revealed Nicaragua's to get the aid bill through. powerful men in Nicaragua: Borge, who as close allegiance to the Soviets. The new af. Meanwhile, the Administration, through a interior minister controls the police. Army finity between Moscow and Managua was device called "reprogramming," has already commander Humberto Ortega and the pop• also underscored by an agreement between diverted $15 inilllon of foreign aid funds to ular former guerrila· commander Henry the Soviet Communist party and the San the Sandinistas-it managed this while Con Ruiz who has taken over the important Eco dinista National Liberation Front, even gress was in recess-and is right now trying nomic Planning Ministry. though the FSLN ls not organized as a to channel another $380,000 to "them in mill· In Moscow, the Sandinista front signed a party. Past Soviet party agreements, more tary items. ."cooperation program'' with· the Soviet over, have been signed with ruling parties in Communist Party. regimes tagged by Moscow as countries of . (Washington Post, Apr. .13, 19801 The communist governments rolled out "Socialist orientation," a phrase Moscow TOUR BY NICABAGUANS STRENGTHENS TIEs t.he red carpet for the Nicarag1lans. Accord- has not yet formally pinned on Nicaragua. . ing to reports by a correspondent for the But the Soviet . party-Sandinista agree WITH-SOVIET BLOC Sandinista newspaper Barricada who went ment, says Soviet analyst Morris Rothen (By Terri Shawl along, the Nicaraguans were cheered by berg in Soviet World Outlook, a publication MANAGUA, NICARAGUA, April 12.-A high- thousands of flag-waving Soviet citizens in of Foy Kohler's respected Advanced Inter level Nicaraglian delegation has returned Leningrad. They attended the Bolshoi national Studies Institute, "suggests Soviet from a lengthy tour of Eastern Europe with Ballet in Moscow and watched a demonstra- - confidence" that the FSLN will become a a substantial aid package and a.greements tO tion by East German tanks. -ney also vis· party and, "under Soviet guidance, will take strengthen ties with the Soviet Bloc. ited Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Army on the characteristics of a Soviet-style orga- The tour by Moises Hassan of the ruling chief Ortega went on to Algeria and Libya. nization." · · five-member Junta and three key leaders of In each country, the Nicaraguans signed The Nicaraguan Moscow tour also the controlling Sandinista National Liber- agreements on trade, economic and techni brought a number of economic benefits, in· ation Front. illustrates the government's de- cal aid and cultural exchange. The Soviet eluding Soviet technical cooperation, aid in cision to "diversify" its international rel&· Union has promised to aid the Nicaraguan developing Nicaraguan mining, light and tions after decades of close U.S. ties fostered fishing industry and ezechoslovi.k.ia is com food industries, power engineering and· by dictator Anastasio ·Somoza, who was mitted to help build a textile factory. transport and communications. The Soviets ousted last July. It should result in a sub- Nicaraguan lenders, angered by delays also plan to send experts to Nicaragua, stantial increase in the Soviet presence in and debate in Washington over U.S. ala, which, in turn, will send personnel to the volatile Central America. stress that aid from both Eastern and West- USSR to be trained. on the tour of almost a month, the Nica- em Europe is "absolutely without condi Rothenberg also makes this ominous ob~ raguan delegation signed Joint communi- tions." A Soviet ambassador is to arrive here servation: "The presence of Nicaraguan De ques with the Soviet Union and East . next week and the Soviet airline Aeroflot fense Minister Umberto Ortega on the dele Germany that followed the Soviet line on Will begin flights to Managua next month. gation and a prominent place by Soviet De almost all international issues, including At· The only other Soviet embassy on the fense Minister and Politburo member Us ghanistan. Central American Isthmus is in Costa Rica. tinov at ceremonies incident to the visit sug The communique with Moscow con- The Soviets also have an embassy in Mexico gest that the question of mllita.ry aid was demned "the campaign by imperialist and and are a major presence in Cuba, a close explored.... In East Germany, Ortega was reactionary forces to increase international ally of Nicaragua's new government. received separately by his East German tension around the events in Afgha..""listan." Since the takeover last year, members of counterpart." The campaign, it said, aims to "stifle the in· the Junta and the Sandinista. national direc· The Nicaraguan visit to Moscow follows alienable right of the people of ••. Al· torate have visited the United States on what Rothenberg describes as a "decided ghanistan . • . to follow the ro8.d of progres- four occasions. Twelve months after taking upsurge" in Soviet attention to the signifi sive change." office, three Junta members met with Presi· cance of revolutionary activities in Latin While the Soviets and Nicaraguans agreed dent Carter at the White House. Interior America. The Soviet Journal dealing with on a whole litany of issues, most of the posi- Minister Borge has l)een invited to visit the Latin American affairs, Latinskaia Amerika, tions-such as on Middle East issues-coin- United States later this month. devoted little attention to the Nicaraguan cide with thO.se of the nonaligned move- Even as Nicaragua moves close to the revolution before this year, but the first ment. Nicaragua's new government identi· Communist Bloc on the world stage, one of· 8476 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 the country's three small communist parties CommfssiQn of the European Commu- enough to admit the racial and ethnic dlf. has run Into serious trouble. Fifty-five lead nities, and who has served so ably in ferences of Its constituent parts. ers of the Communist Party of Nicaragua Washington over the last several It may not yet be admlaslble to Joke about were arrested when their union federation an ethnic group, but It ls more than permls- staged a .series of strikes last month. Many years. slble for an lndlvldual to readopt some of a are still In Jail The union f ederatlo~·s office This speech is concise· and clear in culture that was supposed to have been left was attacked by members of the Sandlnlsta ·tts · explana~ion of what - Western behind In the Old World. The lmmlgrant labor federation and the government has ac Europe shares with the United States father strlklng his bhlldren because they cused the party of collaborating with the and what it does not share and how lapse Jnto the language of his native coun CIA to undermine the economy. that shapes reactions to international try has been replaced three generations The party ·has been ·expelled from the events and sometimes creates very dif. later by Americans who see no conflict or SandlniSta-sponsored political alliance and a ferent positions. His comments regard-. danger In having two Identities and who will coalition of labor f ederatlons.e Europe's new institutional diversi· proudly proclaim· themselves as Polish Ing American, Japanese-American or Mexican ty and his recommendation of a American. INTERNATIONAL CROSS comnion foreign policy are most inter- The European begins to appreciate that COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP estlng. there are rich and different seams running Ambassador Spaak emphasizes that, through what he had supposed to be a HON. ROBERT E. BADHAM while the Western European response single culture carved' from one common or CALIFORNIA to various international crises such as ~~ethe same time, the European becomes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Iran and Afghanistan may differ from ever more aware of the regional diversities the U.S. response because the West within the U.S. These are not merely differ- Monday, Ap~ 21, 1980 Europeans have their own geopolitical ences In topography and climate. the obvl- • Mr. BADHAM. Mr. Speaker, I would and economic realities, West Europe- ous contrast between the wintry.. forests of like to bring to my colleagues, atten- ans always feel a basic solidarity with the Northeast and the sunburnt deserts of tion the third place finisli of the U.s. the United States. I feel that if w~ can the Southwest. High School Girls Cross Country view this diversity as a strength and They are very real differences that stem Team in the International Cross Coun- act accordingly we defeat efforts to ex- from deeply lngralned Interests: the most lott these differences as a sign of _ obvious example being the tensions that try Championship. P · in th alli d exist between the energy haves and the The event was held in La Grande . we akness e ance an we pro- energy have-nots. Motte, France, (>n March 9, 1980. tect our traditional affinities to West- It ls at this point that Europeans should There were 24 countries represented em Europe. begin to become aware of the difficulties with 140 athletes taking part in the Ambassador Spaak's speech follows: .the United States has In reaching decisions. 2,800 meter race across soft sand, dirt, SPDCB BY AllBAssADOR SPA.AK Not only ls there a diversity of regional ln- and paved surface. terests. but there ls the proliferation of spe- The U.S. team was oomprised of four The relationship between the United clal Interests, that play an ever-Increasing States and Europe ls iiever easy and can role In the decision making process. young ladies who attend Edison High never be taken for granted. It does not re-· All of these Interests, be they farmers, School in Huntington Beach, Calif. quire great powers of perception to realize consumel'B, oil companies, steel· companies. The American participants· were Kiki that at the moment It ls not proceeding par- doctors. pro-nuclear. anti-nuclear, envlron Lantry, who placed 9th; Leslie Pratt tlcularly smoothly. mentalists or whatever. are well organized placed 14th; Andrea Kirkom placed The sounds of creaking If not splintering and above all politically organized. 19th and Tracy Melvin placed 36th. can distinctly be heard. They have taken up well-entrenched posl- 1 commend these young ladies for . My personal conviction ls that the rela- tions on the chessboard of national and their sportsmanship and .success and tionshlp will survive Intact but we have to local politics, In many ways appearing to ask ourselves why we are hearing those have taken over from the established politl- wish them the very best in future en- sounds at all. cal parties. They are very often also a factor deavors.e The symptoms of a deterioration In our In International relations. relationship are well known; our respective. So too are the numerous Independent and responses, apparently so different, to the executive agencies whose nameplates seem UNITED STATES-WESTERN crises In Iran and Afghanistan. The causes, to adorn every comer of the maze that ls EUROPEAN RELATIONS political Washington. h owever, run deeper. They stem first f rom It ls both right and understandable that misconceptions that each has about the domestic Interests and agencies should be HON. LEE H. HAMILTON other, second, from the way In which the fn11WT Involved In evel"V decision of the U.S. United States reaches Its decliJions and, ~ • J OPINDIA1'A third, from the way In which EUrope often government. But In their multiplicity and IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES falls to ·reach coherent and comprehensive diversity there lie Inevitable sources of In· Monday, April 21, 1980 decisions. compounded with all of those tac- ternal conflict, and added degree of pain in tors ls the fault on both sldp- of the Atlan- the declslon-maklng · process and endless e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, as tic of deflnlng the word "security" too nar- posslbWtles for lack of communication. All the United States pursues sanctions rowiy. of which ' makes true consultation with aPin.St Iran for its detention of First, the misconceptions that Europeans America's allies more difficult. American hostages and against the persist In having about the United States. None of this makes life particularly e&Sy Soviet Union for its military interven Europeans arriving In the U.S. come with for those Europeans In Washington whose tion in Afghanistan, questions abound one common prejudice: that what they will tasks It ls to explaln·.to their capitals that a · concerning the adequacy of support find here will be bland, unlform and with- decision of the President ls not necessarily a out variety; and therefore easy to compre- declslon of the United States. It can be hard from our Western European allies. bend and deal with. for our politicians and civil servants to un- I know my colleagues in Congress .... ovies and te. levislon have accustomed derstand how It ls that the gap.between ex are searching for answers which will a1. ecutlve and legislature yawn& ever wider explain why we are not getting more them to expect a homogeneous culture when In our own countriea the two are often based on hamburgers, Coca-Cola, oversized Inseparable. It ls harder still for them to un support from our allies. The relation automobiles and, more recently, jogging. derstand that the Cl\lef Executive does not ship of our country to our allies in On the surface. that prejudice may be have a political party whose support he can Western Europe is now under close confirm~ by lnltlal experience, but what count on In CJLJTYing out a decision. scrutiny, but few ob;servers penetrate dispels lt ls the realization that at a deeper This ls not a comment on the personalities the debate to analyY.e the reasons for level this ls, In fact, a country of enormous Involved. It ls an observation on a system, or European positions and assess the real diversity. Once Europeans have .made that...- at least on how It has evolved. strength of our alliance with the coun discovery, it ls something they never quite The checks and balances of a system de- tries of Western Europe. recover from. . vised in the 18th century were built-In to I would like to recommend to the at There ls the diversity In the origins of deal with the problem of the supposedly every American. One quickly learns that divine power of monarchs. With the demise tention of my colleagues a speech ethnic origin can be nearly as Important to of national political parties, the upsurge of given here in. Washington, D.C., on Individuals. and particularly groups of lndl- special Interest groups, the role of speclal April 16, 1980, . to the Mid-Atlantic vlduals. as being American Itself. E pluribus ·lzed agencies and the total decoupling of ex Club by Ambassador Fernand Spaak, unum has been realized. The nation-build- ecutlve and legislature, we are left asking who is head of the delegation of the Ing ls over and the nation f~ls confident whether these checks and balances have not April 21, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8477 in fact led to a partial paralysis of the tem- . in the alliance have the monopoly · of of Henry Kissinger's cri du coeur: "To poral power of the presidency. wisdom in answering that question? whom do you pick up the phonehwhen you The consequences for Europeans that In our relations with one another we want to speak.to Europe?" flow from this way of dotrig things are two- should be able to tolerate differences of That we have so far failed to fully bite the fold. Contrary to the myths of recent years, opinion Just as we tolerate them within the foreign policy bullet will come as no sur Washington does not happen behind closed democratic system of any one of our coun- prise to those who are famfilar with the de doors; Europe, on the other hand, does. In tries. That is the essence of a real partner- velopment of the European Community. the U.S. system the deals and compromises ship. Anything else is bound to be one-sided Our political institutions are dramatically, are struck in the open. The whole process is and eventually rendered meaningless. chaotically young. They do not necessarily conducted in public. While this may appear On each side, we may have to agree to dis- produce decisions 88 they are needed and to be healthy and indeed democratic, it can agree at times. either on our analysis of an the decisions they do produce tend to be result in leadership that is s<>metjmes ham- . event or our reSl)Onses to it; so long as in so more rigid than necessary. · strung and whose. positions are inflexible. doing we are all still faithful to our common we are talking about nine countries, a Once the domestic deal has been put togeth- interests and values. Commission, a Council of MtnJsters, In er there may be little room left for manoeu- What each does may differ but its symbol- recent years a European Council and now vre in any negotiation that follows with for- le significance must remain the same. too, a legitimate and directly-elected Parlla eigners. That is the first consequence. There is a clear message in the Communi- ment. Each is trying to define its role, with The second flows from the fact that there ty•s recent decision to further strengthen its each anxious not to lose any degree of its in is nothing final about many decisions taken contractual economic links with Turkey, fluence. in the United States. Even when the public Yugoslavia and Ruman.la. There Is also a There can be a temptation for our foreign bargaining between Congress. White House, cost to us In economic and financial terms. partners to exploit this Institutional -diversl and special interests is apparently over. the This Is not the kind of action that Is ac- ty. It increases, if that ls possible, the com declsion ls still .contested. There are always companied by war-whoops and the roll of plexity of our -relationships 88 the commu the courts, the press and public opinion to drums but it is also not without its political nity slowly comes of age. whom further appeal can be made. .. and strategic significance. w h h eed that It Is at this point that the executive often There ~- not.... i,.. .. n ...... ~ 1 - wrong wi·th e ave, owever, agr some ex- ., u.u&e ~U.J temal economic relations should become an turns to the friends and allies overseas and the fact that Europe and the United States · 0 f c unit nsibfilt b t expects to find from them the support it differ In their perception of an internation- areahave onlyomm done soY because respo we maintainy, u we a cannot muster at home. · al event or their responses to it. It would be fiction that there ls a neat line that divides When that support is not automatically neither a healthy nor even a credible part-· the economic aspects of fotelgn policy from f orthcomtng, there is a sense of betrayal, of nership if we always marched in lock-step. the political. a lack of solidarity. This is made all the The important thing is that we both under- more acute by the_use that is then made do- stand the differences of one another's ap. Different people fn different groups mestically and politically of the fact · that proaches and accept that they may be but handle our international relations either fn the President has not been able to win minor differences. political cooperation or through the Com- munity. according to whether the subjects round America's friends and allies to his po- U on either side, we choose to systemati- in question are covered by the ·Treaties or sition. cally treat any variation in our views or atti- As we find ourselves ineluctably drawn tudes as major differences, we shall be not. This distinction Is weakening the de into the American. political process, what giving others the opportunity to drive a f ense of our interests and the strength of are in fact minor differences of opinion wedge between us. o~li~~ in Washington have enabled begin to take on the proportions of. major At the same time, it is also important that me to see how artificial a distinction it Is· disagreements. we do not allow the issue of East-West tela- · Suddenly, it appears that Europe can no tions to dominate our thinking to the exclu- and how much more difficult it makes our · longer be counted on in a crisis. But the sion of a number of other issues; issues that relationship with our partners. belief that Europe will ·always react exactly may not appear to be as immediate or even In a Sense, we are at a very similar stage as America does, is a . misplaced one and a.s politically exciting, but which may both to that we were in the late 1940's. At that stems from a lack of understanding in this · be harder to resolve and which present no time, we made the dlScovery, and acted country of what we do share and what we less of a threat to our overall security and upon it, that each or us separately in do not share with America. well-being. Europe would count for nothing eco.nomi- We do not share the same geography. There ls the delicate matter of maintain· cal1y if we remained separate and did not Our neighbours are not Canada and Ing an open competitive trading system in a pool our resources. ' Mexico, they are the Soviet block. the period of high inflation, rising unemploy- We do now have a certain economic Middle East, and Africa. ment and low growth. There is the question strength as a Community. We can no longer We do not share the same history. Our co- of the proper relationship between the in· shun the political responsibfilties that lonial past is more recent as are our civil dustrialized world and the developing world. spring from it. Nor, in our own interest. wars. There is our continued collective depen- should we fail to use the opportunities it We do not share th.e same international dence on imported oil. giv~ us. - economic relations. Our economy is far , These are as much security issues in Political cooperation between our coun- more dependent on external trade than is today's world as those we traditionally class tries has been a great step forward. But it is that of the United States, both in terms of as political mWtary Issues. One wonders in dated. Since 1973, the Community and its our needs for supplies and for markets. these areas who makes the greater contribu- member states have been thrown onto the · What we do share with the United States tion to overall security. Is it Europe, ls it the world stage. Our institutions were not ready is the same basic set of beliefs and values; United States? · and our policies had hardly been defined. · more so than with any other country. We Po!iUcal mfiltary and politiCal economic For Europe to carry political weight in the also depend on one another for our future issues both touch on our seclirity; they not world, to be able to be master of its own des prosperity and survival. Those are the only overlap but they are also intertwined. tiny, intergovernmental cooperation Is now things that bind us together and make us Once that fact is realized, there is a logi- not enough. It was not enough to create eco- · partners, whether we like it or not-and I do cal conclusion that we in Europe cannot nomic unity. It will not be enough if we are. like it. - escape. That is, that we have to develop a to assume our responsibillties and play the But being partners does not only mean common foreign p(>licy. role in world affairs that should be ours. shouldering common burdens and responsi- I believe that the license of expressing The problem was clearly identified by Leo billtles. For the partnership to work we also one-self personally is something permitted Tindemans in his 1976 report on European have to make an effort to understand the departing diplomats and I should perhaps Union, when he suggested a new step to ways in which we each differ and the con- emphasize that my observations on this wards a common foreign policy. To make straints under which each operates. question constitute a personal view rather European identity credible 'to the outside Too often we are made to feel in Europe than official commlsslon policy. world, he proposed in his own words, that Americans do not always understand It is therefore my own view that if we "changing the political commitment of the that pur interests are not always identical, were to develop a common foreign policy, member states which ls the basis of political that we cannot always respond to the same many of the frictions in our relationship cooperation into a legal obligation". · challenge in the same manner. with the United States would be consider- My own feeling is that the time has come This does not mean that we do not feel ably reduced. How often have I heard or to recognize that a valid and lasting foreign solidarity with the United States, it simply read in this country how much more policy for Europe requires us to use to the means that we may have our own way. of smoothly the relationship between us oper- full the economic importance that we have doing things. ates when, as in the field of trade, the· as a Community. We can no longer afford to We may also have our own way of looking United States is dealing with a Community pretent that our political strength Is unaf• at things. There is always more than one in- that is speaking with one voice on the basis fected by our economic strength. Our meth terpretation of an international event. We of a conµnitment that has.-been arrived at ods and goals in each area are part and all know that the RU$81ans are in Kabul. through the institutional process of the parcel of one foreign policy for the Commu but do we know why? Does any one partner Community. And how often is one reminded nity. . 8478 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 This would not Involve a loss of lndepend· Chairman Randolph Harding; Vice need for change. Old ways die hard, it ence; In fact, globally, it would mean quite Chairman Richard Hirsch; Secretary is true, but the consumer is tired of the reverse. It would meet rather than con Courtney , Alvey; Treasurer Clyde waiting. firm the fear of those who point to an au tarchic economic community. We would In Humbert. The speech follows: fact no longer be open to the charge that we Now nearlY 100,000 members strong, LooKING BACKWARD AT THE 1980's were exercising economic power without po. ASME is dedicated to the advance- litical responsibillty. ment of the art and science of me- · in B vidin Prophecy has been defined as "credibility It would also do much to improve the cli· c hanical engmeer g. Y pro g packaged for future delivery." Obviously, mate of relations between the United States continuous training to professional · one is better off postponing the due date as and Europe as a source of confusion was re mechanical engineers, by disseminat- long as possible, and it is usually safer to moved There would, however, still remain the lng fnformation about new technol- predict the next hundred years than the fundaniental problem of understanding one ogles and processes, ASME's efforts next ten. But if Bill Miller, John Heimann better the lives of all citizens, as and Paul Volcker are brave enough to come another, of appreciating and ~pttng one another's differences. breakthroughs in engineering are in- here and predict what the government and Although we may each have differences of corporated into the · workings of the Federal Reserve are going to be doing perception, it is fair to say that our respec American industry. during the 1980s, I guess I can summon the ASME also serves as a fulcrum of ex- courage to do a little prognosticating on tive governments do understand one an· behalf of bank holding companies. other pretty well change between scholars, students, Prophesying is a growth Industry tn Amer But we have to go further and deepen that understanding beyond the official and professional engineers, government, tea. Futuroltlgy has become a profession, diplomatic level Our peoples themselves and industry. Its 31 technical divisions and committees and institutes devoted to have to know one another better and to include air pollution control; bioengl- studying the future are springing up all accept the differences between us as they neering; computer technology; ocean over. Even Congress has-one. At the same exist. This can only happen with a constant engineering; raj} transport; and solar time, the stur Y of history is rapidly disap Interchange of people and ideas. · energy. The Society's 12 quarterly peartng fro the school curriculum, and One of the successes of the European idea Journals report on a broad spectrum of history teachers are out looking for a new has been the personal contacts that have llne of work. developed across our frontiers between stu engineering experience and research. Maybe I can combine my old-fashioned dents, professionals, businessmen, civil serv ASME is concerned with the devel- views about history wtth the current fad of ants and politicians who have all learned, opment of the engineering student of futurology by emulating the example of the to live together and to work together. Th&t today itlto the practicing engineer of writer Edward Bellamy ninety-some years is the real fabric of the solidarity that exists tomorrow. Nearly a fifth of ASME's ago, In his best-seller,. "Looking Backward". between our nine countries; not the bureau members are students. He· approached • problem llke. this by pro- cratic institutions that manage the techni· Mr. Speaker, I invite you and my dis- Jecttng his imagination forward in time to cal details of the Community. tlnguishe~ colleagues to Join me In the year 2000 and writing a "history" of ev- The most strf.king example of this context erything that had happened since 1887. at the personal level is the enormous paying tribute to the tradition-and Let me read one possible entry from The number of exchanges that now take place future-of the American Society of New Twenty-first Century Encyclopedia- between our young people, In particular Mechanical Englneers.e the one on commercial banks: tho8e of France and Germany. This is an · Banking In the United States functioned area where In relations between the United as a separate Industry from 1781, when the States and Europe there cannot be too THE F'O'l'ORE OF BANKING first commercial bank was founded In Phila many programs, too many institutions or delphia, until the late 1980s, when its func too many dollars spent. HON. JOHN J. LaF ALCE tions were absorbed by various other forms Europeans now come to the United States of financial Intermediaries. Its final demise, more easily and cheaply than they ever OP NEW YORK llke that of certain fossil species of animals, used to. The great worry is that fewer and IN TllE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES may be attributed to a contlnous process of fewer·Americans will be able to visit Europe. Monday, Aprtl 2!, 1980 specialization, until finally it was no longer This is one of the worst consequences of the able· to adapt to rapid changes In its envi· depreciation of the value of the dollar. • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, if one ronment. ·· We had grown used to those young Ameri were to predict what the business of The specialization of depository institu cans apparently loafing about and wasting banking or other financial institutions tions, although ultimately mandated by law, .their time In Paris, Madrid or London. In would be in 10, or even 20 years from originated In the financial marketplace. The fact, they were leari>.ing to understand the now, one would also have to predict first mutual savings banks came Into exist· re8.llty of Europe today. · ence because commercial banks chose to It Js the friendships and understanding the needs·and desires of the consumer deal only with commercial and· government that are built between ordinary men and which will dictate the development of clients. The first savings and loan &Moci women that will ultimately decide the banking. ations came Into existence because both the nature of relations between nations and The depositozy institutions deregu comniercial banks and the savings banks re continents. That has been so for the con lation bill recently signed into tlaw by fused to make mortgage loans. The first struction of Europe where we have taken 88 the President, heralds a. new, deregu credit unions appeared because both the our watchword the thought expressed by lated age in banking. How will the ff. savings banks and the S&Ls were prohibfted Jean Monnet: "We are not forming an alll· nancial institutions adapt to this new from making consumer lo~. and the com ance of states, we are uniting peoples". age? Will they become increasingly mercial banks of the time were not Interest It is Just as· true for the partnership be ed. The first credit card was issued by tween the peoples ·of Europe and those of specialized or will they meld into one others because banks refused to enter the the United States.e homogenous unlt-a family financial market early. With the p&Mage of time, center to meet every need? these self-limiting responses to the market It is difficult to predict the future place became frozen Into law, so that the ASME TO CELEBRATE ITS FIRST with great accuracy for our outlook is commercial banks entered the 198Qs com CENTENARY so often limited by our present experi peting with 28,000 other specialized deposi ence-we cannot predict that of which tory institutions. we have no knowledge. Who could Curiously, the commercial banks expend HON. CLARENCE D. LONG ed all their efforts on preventing other com OPKARYLAND have predicted, for example, the age mercial banks from having an opportunity. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of electronic banking, which is now to compete, and their customers simply upon us, back in the early 1900's? gravitated to other Intermediaries who were Monday, April 21, 1980 Today I would like to insert into the more Interested In obtaining their business. e Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak RECORD one set of predictions for the Very few bank holding companies proved er, the American Society of Mechani future of banking made in a speech by flexible enough to adapt to the unprec cal Engineers CASME> is this year cele Walter Wriston, chairman of Citicorp, edented social change that followed the brating its first centenary. I would like before the Reserve city bankers, titled combining of the electronic computer with telecommunications on a worldwide scale. to offer special congratulations to the "Looking Backward at the 1980's". Mr. The advent of electronic funds transfer and membership of the Baltimore section Wriston very aptly describes what the storage bad 88 profound an effect on banks . and the officers: past Chairmen Wil future of banking could be like if the as did the substitution of paper money for liam Arnold, Jr., and Harold Brooks; financial institutions do not accept the bulllon, but this phenomenon was not gen- April 21, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8479 erally understood at the time. By the mid· one of ·us should someday have to write in paigners ritually looked forward to the time 1990s, commercial banking functions had all our memoirs, as Churchill did about his fail· when the ·western farmer, and the small been replicated by such institutions as de ure to appreciate that Singapore was vul· town businessman and the small investor, partment-store chains, satellite communica nerable because its guns all pointed the might have the same access to money and tions companies, and cable TV stations. wrong way: "I do not write this in any way credit as did a Hamilton or a Biddle, or a That's the end of the article. It's not a to excuse myself. I ought to have known, Morgan. That time is now here. The techno· very happy entry, but it's easy to guess how my advisers ought to have known and I logical conditions for fulfilling those prom it might have happened. All we have to do is ought to have been told, and I ought to ises now exist. If bankers do not do it, look at what banks are supposed to be doing have asked." others will. If history proves anything, it's righ$ now-in 1980-and then review what As bankers, we will not have even that that the market will not take "no" for an everybody else is doing. excuse, because we have been told. Fifty answer. Banks take demand deposits, and pay cus years ago, in February 1930, the first issue Let me describe the bank of the future: tomers' checks drawn against them. So do of Fortune magazine carried an article on It will take your funds for deposit and pay credit unions, ·savings , banks, savings and banking containing these words, .. which you close to money market interest on loans, the American Telephone and Tele· might almost have been written yesterday: them, up to the minute you take them out, •graph Company, stockbroker cash manage • • • banking has become extremely com~ by check or otherwise. ment accounts, and money market mutual plex and has long since exceeded the old It will give you medium- or short-term funds. boundaries of regular banking. The General loans, or a mortgage on your home. Banks take time deposits and savings de Motors Acceptance Corp., which finances It will invest your surplus funds in any posits, and pay interest on. them. So do your purchase of CaWisconsin, the politi Solicitor General of the United States, - encouraged that . marriage ourselves, with cal power of the dairy lobby forced through asking their state legislature for a law pro th~ help of Washington, and the progeny laws making it illegal to put any color in hibiting out-of-state bank holding compa will continue dipping their hands into our margarine, in order to make it look as unap nies from opening any offices in that state. pockets as long as we continue to nourish petizing as possible. Later, as consumer We find bankers in another state standing the conditions that created them. Or until pressure mounted, one could buy white mar before the Supreme Court in an attempt to the pockets disappear, whichever comes garine packaged with a little bag of dye. If overturn a three-judge District Court ruling first. you had strong fingers and were tru)y dedi that it is unconstitutional for one state to It does not have to be like that. The sec cated, you could mix to make margarine bar trust companies owned out of state from tion I read you from The New Twenty-first look more or less like butter. Today, it doing bll.siness in their area. The Senate of Century· EncyclQpedia does not have to be comes pre mixed, and margarine outsells the United States, propelled by 32 state published. We are entering upon a chapter butter by more than two to one. In bank bankers' associations, passed the Stewart in the history of banking, the whole of ing's attempt to keep other banks out of Amendment to prohibit the Comptroller . which will probably be written in the next "our" market, we are making the same from permitting limited-purpose national ten years, certainly within the last twenty losing argument that the butter lobby did, banks to do out-of-state trust business. yt;ars of this century. We are the present since others are now supplying not only sub While all this is going on, National Steel . custodians of an institution that is as old as stitute products like margarine, but also Corporation buys a Savings and Loan Asso this country. Whether it survives into the what we regard as our own re3.I bread and ciation in California, American Express twenty-first century is a matter that will be butter. buys 50 percent of Warner Communications, determined in no small part by those pres There have been periods in our history Merrill Lynch opens ten new offices in your ent in this room. There is no reason why not so very long ago-when political cam- town, and we bankers stay in our bunkers 8480 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 with our backs to the wan. resolutely talk· offices and get on the phone to persuade demand three years of my life as the price ing about keep trig fell ow bankers out of their Congressmen or regulators to protect of citizenship. "our markets.'' . them from competition. Whatever the Many students today see the draft as an Those people on the outside .of the wall reason. history teaches that companies ·dis unjustifiable imposition. and they concoct Merrlll Lynch, Sears, Roebuck, G.E. Credit appear when they fall to adapt to new reali a ties. variety of arguments to defend their dlsin Corporation, the· credit card companies. and cllnatlon to serve. "It•s the wrong war," say all the others-are only doing what a The question as we enter the 1980s ls not market economy demands. All they are how many people will climb over "our" wall some, conveniently neglecting that the pur doing ls giving the ordinary consumer a into "our" market. but whether we will pose of 'instituting a draft is not to wage any competitive return on his money. There's allow ourselves to climb over it, out into the particular war, but to improve our abfilty to nothing wrong with that; what's wrong ls sunlight where the customers are. react in case of war. Others argue that the the government's attempt to prevent it. And I would like to see that twenty-first cen government owes us a professional army _if we encourage these attempts, as many of tury encyclopedlst forced to rewrite our and that nobody should be forced to enlist. our colleagues have done. then. as Pogo obituary, Whether he does or not will Much of the draft resistance during ·the said, the enemy ls us. d~pend on some critically important politi Vietnam War could be construed as patriot All attempts to protect our Fortress Bank cal decisions that will be made during the ic. Today ~s arguments against ·registration ing will fall, because new technologies like 1980's coneerning our financial system. seem like a smoke screen to distort a differ telecommunications and data processing The business of financial intermediation ls ent mesasage: "Don't bother me. I've got have provided the means to give everyone becoming a high-technology industry, and It better things to do." equal access to the free money markets. and Is one complicated by political and regula. · inflation 1s· furnishing the incentive to go One wonders, with astonishment, if this la tory factors. Segregated markets now exist the same nation that Just two decades ago there. That's what plastic credit cards and only in the minds of people who do not live toll-f~ 800 numbers are really all about. thrllled to hear, "Ask not what your coun in the marketplace. Indeed, th~ only place try can do for you; ask what you can do for The trend cannot be halted because the you can live and make that Judgment ls in public, in this age of consumerism, will no your country.'' Th<"re are those who have the past. Sometimes the nonexpert says lt blamed this transformation 'on the quality longer accept the inequities. Banks cannot best. Gertrude Stein was certainly not ~ of our leadership. U we had abler or more be sheltered from this competition; they can expert in finance. but shQ. understood ~tter only be banned from participating in it. than anyone what I have been trying to say. honest chiefs. if we had been spared Indeed, it ls useless to anticipate, if we are "The money is always there, but the pock Abscam, · Koreagate, Watergate, etc.. we forbidden to act. And if we do not partici ets change; it is not in the same pockets might feel le$8 cynical about the intentions pate, we are finished as financial interme after a change; and that ls all there Is to say of government. Accusing the politicians, diaries. It may not be an exaggeration to say about money.''• however. ls. to borrow from Samuel Beckett, that our very survival in the year 2000 may blaming one's shoes for the faults of one's . entail giving up our banking charter;· if our feet. In a democracy. leaders~ ultimately· laws ai:_id regulations do not change. THE PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP reflective of those who install them. In the Every lending officer in this room ls famll· past 20 years, Americans have IJ'()wn stead tar with the company that fails to adapt to ily .less concemed with-the national interest new realities and thus produces a write-off HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST and more concemed with selfish interests. for the bank and becomes another tomb= We ask what the country can do for us, and stone in the corporate graveyard of Amer or VIRGINIA IN THE HOUSE'op REPRESENTATIVES what further we can do for ourselves. When ica. No one here was al'ound, but we have all the voters are so self-embroiled, lt ls hardly h~ard the story of how Central Leather, once larger than General Motors. failed to Monday, April 21, 1980 surprising to that another successful land grab-by pany or industry will not supply goods or commentary is particularly timely. Mr. the Soviet Union could awaken us to the services at a fair price.-the customer will go Tucker is to be commended for ex precariousness of our p()sltlon in the world elsewhere. pres8ing so well what should be in the and persuade us to subjugate our personal Sometime& the managements of the com hearts of all of us. interests to the national interest. One hopes panies in an industry fall to understand The editorial follows: that such crlses may be averted. But the what business they are in. as many railroads longer we continue to behave like heirs who failed to understand that they were in the Tm PRici: or CrrlzBNsBIP have no responsibfilty toward the fortune transportation business. atld so they failed Something unnerving ls happening in the we've inherited rather than like builders of or disappeared entirely~ Sometimes the United States. We the people are losing our that fortune, the more the likelihood of pre managements fall to give the customer what sense of participation in the great American serving our way of life will diminlsh. The he or she wants-instead, paying 5 percent experiment. We are cheating the govem strength of a democracy depends on the on savings accounts in a 12 percent market. ment of taxes by neglecting to report cash active participation of lts citizens. If we do to pick a random example. Sometimes the transactions. We are falling to vote in ever not pull together, we will pull apart. companies and their regulators fail to re larger percentages. We are reacting to our flect the new realities of the world, and most pressing national problem-the conser In certain respects. my son Peter reminds whole industries die as unfettered competi vation of energy-as if we had no individual me of today's averi.ge American voter. He ti<>n comes into the marketplace and runs responslbfilty for solving it. And we yelp wants what he wants when he wants lt, rings around them. The view of the U.S. when the President, faced with a potential without concerning himself in the least Government expressed by the courts and international crisis. suggests draft reglstra whether his desires or timetable conflict regulators that savings banks don't compete tlo~ With those of his parents. He doesn't with commercial banks can only be de The resistance to draft registration. in wonder where his food and clothes come scribed as bizarre. It's like believing the rail particular, gnaws at me. When I was in col from or who provides them. It never occurs roads were a monopoly long after the tracks lege, my birth date was assigned a low to him that he owes anybody anything in had rusted. and the buses and the 18-wheel enough lottery number so that being draft return for what he ls given or that he has ers were rolling down the interstate high ed seemed a certainty. My student status the slightest reason tQ be grateful. ways with the 747s flying overhead. exempted me until the draft was discontin Some of our own banking colleagues, like ued. Had it not. I'm not sure how I would At the age of six months, such an attitude generals preparing for the last war. still have reacted to being called upon to fight in is understandable. By the time Peter is 18, think of Fortress Banking as a separate line a war as pernicious as Vietnam. I might however, he will have learned that some self-sacrifice tives who bring the crowd at the Lions Club tious refusal to fight were trying to. change Is the price of citizenship and that, in view luncheon applauding to its feet. by a ringing government policy. But I would not have of the alternatives to the American way of defense of free enterprise, go back to· the~ questioned the government's right to life, the price ls well worth paylng.e April 21, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS . 8481 THE INDEX THAT FEEDS substitutes. I am entitled, according to you. was honored by the St. Louis commu INFLATION to eat the same quantity and quality of beef nity for his many ·years of consistent and veal as· I did in 1972-73, when it was; service to the black community. cheap. Through the efforts of Attorney HON. CLARENCE D. LONG · I still get to drive gas-guzzling big cars at 6 OF MARYLAND to 8 mi. a gal.• Just like people did when the Witherspoon many significal,lt civil IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CPI was "based" and gasoline cost 4U in rights gains were achieved by 'blacks stead of the $1.20 now. When the govem- and other minorities in employment, Monday, April 21, 1980 ment urges conservation. it is at variance housing, education, and public accom e Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak- with your contention that we should be left at least as I proudly join with the St. Louis leagues an article, from the March 24 well off as before. Heating oil was 19t a gal. community in honoring one of our edition of Business Week, sent to me at the CPI base, plentiful too. I can ignore the government's urging that I insulate my outstanding citizens. Attorney Robert by a constituent, Mr. Robert H. Patz- home, roll back the thermostat. etc.• and L. Witherspoon. wall of Towson, Md. Mr. Patzwall sug- heat with the same amount of oil as before R. L, WITHERSPOON HELPED OPEN UP ST. gested that the article from Business at today's prices. Lours FOR HIS FELLow BLACKS Week be required reading for all Mem- As to my home, I live in a new house ac- [By Thomas Newsom] bers of Congress, and I agree. The arti- , quired Just before I retired in 1975, and al- ti Shortly after eight o'clock Saturday cle follows: though the value ~ doubled and I can take $100,000 tax-free profit, and the night, the dinner plates will be set aside in a THE INDEX THAT FEEDS INFLATION monthly payments are not a bit more, the North Side banquet hall, and some · fine only 15,000 because quality improvements age of situation ethics. DEAR MRs. . NORWOOD: According to the are ignored. In key part, Robert L. Witherspoon is Jan. 2. 1980, issue of The Wall Street Jour Medical care costs have risen dramatically being honored for his long struggles in the nal, you spoke to the National Association in .the last eight years, and I¥lY CPI-based courtrooms of St. Louis and Middle America income has been raised accordingly, yet my to help open doors for blacks. In the black of Government Labor Officials and de emergenc.e into the American mainstream, fende~ the BLS consW:ner price index former employer continues to pay a large against ·claims that it exaggerates the lilfla portion of my health insurance, and my Bob Witherspoon· spans that time period be tion rate. . • . I submit to you that an costs are about the same. tween the days of Booker T. Washington honest analysis of my own personal finan I know that I am very fortunate to have and the days of Martin Luther King Jr. and cial status reveals more about the impact of your CPI income protection. as· are 50 mil Benjamin Hooks. In addition to his civil the BLS's actions than can be derived from lion other people who are similar benefici rights work. he is also being recognized Sat opinions of economists. aries. But don't you think. b,onestly, that it urday night for his civlc and church work in St. Louis. . Let's start witb my 43rd birthday, July 1, is um~t enrichment. Frankly; it scares me 1968, when as a middle-management federal to contemplate w~t this transfer of pay To the banquet hall in Ville Auditorium. accountant. _Grade 15, Step 8. I was earning ments from one group of citizens to another 532,5 Union Blvd.• it has been a long road $22,000. Federal workers then beca:me sub means. For myself, I am busily engaged in a from those old cotton and tobacco fields ject to the "Comparability Pay" law. My second career in t~e private sector, but not back in South Carolina. salary would have changed little had the everyone is-due to the influence- on incen "We gave Bennettsville as our address, but "average" pay of the private sector surveyed tives. that was where the post office was; we were been used, but it wasn;t. The BLS used spe For example: A local fellow who used to seven miles out in the country," said With cial weighting ·curves and other refinements work for the same government bureau I did erspoon, mid 70-lsh. reminiscing one morn they felt necessa.rY to achieve "comparabil retired 1 % years ago. I called him last week ing last week about the pre-World War I ity,'' and instead of my pay increasing 22% about a Job opening similar to the one I got South, where he was born. in the next 41h years. it spurted 54% to after retirement. He is a CPA and figured "What was the nearest Big Town?" $34,971 by January. 1973, without any pro that from the $24,000 salary to start, on top "Darlington," he answered, "was 18 miles motions. It would be $50,112 a year today if of his CPI-based federal annuity, federal, away.'' Darlington, where today the hot I had not retired on my 50th birthday, July state. city, and FICA taxes. and commuting stock cars race; Florence and Bennettsville 1. 1975. expenses would leave him only $9.000 for all in that great sweep of fertile Piedmont During the 41/z years since my retirement working, and he therefore was not interest area in northeast South Carolina, where from federal employment, my Civil Service ed. Why should he support the system? green velvet-thin leaves of tobacco grow as annuity <#1 810 115>, which started at I understand that BLS's Monthly Labor big as an elephant's ears; and a fleecy white $1,922 a month, will reach $3,075 based on Review welcomes communications that are ·cover of cotton spreads over the land under the CPI-W [The index that.applies to wage factual and analytical, not polemical in the blazing sumnier sun. earners and· clerical workers] of 230.0 at De tone. Although this one is a bit embarrass In the first .decades of this century, this cember, 1979. Thus, I now receive· 63% more ing to me personally, it is a story that needs was also a brooding land of racism that retired than I did working in mid-1968, pri to be told, even if it ultimately results in helped shape Robert L. Witherspoon when marily due to the impact of the BLS's deter less unjust enrichment to CPI cost-of-living he was a lad, one of 15 children trying to mination of "comparability pay" · and benefit recipients. Sincerely, - make a living in the hot fields. calcwation of CPI-based cost-of-living WILLIAM D. HowARD.e He remembers lynchings ••• and the Ku allowances. Klux Klan. and night riders thundering In your speech. which I referred to at the through tobacco country. "Keep the Negro outset. you stated: . ST. LOIDS TRIBUTE TO ROBERT in his place!" was the cry. - '.'We have one official consumer price L. WITHERSPOON Then, and there. Witherspoon decided to index, a.pd we will continue to have one offi be his own man. He worked his way through cial consumer price index." South- Carolina ·state College at Orange The CPI is the best measure of purchas HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY burg; where one of . his professors was Dr. ing power we have." 01' KISSOUIU Benjamin Mays, later to be head of More "The purpose of CPI cost-of-living adjust IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES house College at Atlanta. ment has been to permit people to purchase In college, Witherspoon wrote a thesis, in today's prices the bundle of goods and Monday, April 21, 1980 and then orated on the subject: "Resolved: services they purchased in the base period, • Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I would That Negro Education in the South is a thereby leaving them at least as well off as Challenge tO American Democracy." they were then." like to take this opportunity to share Witherspoon remembered and smiled last This means that I do not have to switch to with my colleagues an article that ap-. week: "My eyes were opened in those days; pork, chicken, or even pasta, as others do, peared in the St. Louis Globe-Demo we were quoting the Declaration of Inde because the cost of beef and veal has gone crat newspaper relating to Attorney pendence, and looking out into a world at up more in the last eight years. than meat Robert L. Witherspoon, who recently what was really going on'." - ' 8482 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 He remembered what a black history Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes used rights demonstrators, he and his daughter teacher told him at Orangeburg: "There are some of Witherspoon's arguments in 1939, drove back to St. ·r..ouis. some things in this country that ministers when the high court decided for the plain rolled in Howard University, where he As the result of the Supreme Court deci The man who. has served as president of worked-operating elevators-and studied . sion, the state established law studies for the Mound City Bar Assn., and who was the law at night. In June, 1930, he graduated, blacks at Lincoln University; later, law first black appointed to the St. Louis Board and headed west for Kansas City, the big- school doors were opened to blacks at the of. Election Commissionel's was an organizer and But, he ran out of money at the St. Louis In 1949, Bob Witherspoon was involved in leader in the movement to help blacks get Union Station, and he's been here ever another precedent-setting case, when he as jobs as clerks in such "dime stores" as since. He went into practice with a Howard slsted George Vaughn in arguing all the way Kresge's and Woolworth's. The efforts were classmate, David M. Grant, a native of St. to the U.S. Supreme Court the so-called Re successful, and the blacks were gradually Louis. This city was as segregated as the strictive Covenant Case. Witherspoon and hired as clerks in these stores, as well as in South, in those days, but at least a black Vaughn represented the Black Real Estate chaih grocery stores. lawyer could practice without too much Brokers of the city, who claimed that so Bob Witherspoon was also instrumental in hassle. called housing covenants violated the con- helping blacks be accepted in all the seats in J Robert L. Witherspoon will be guest of stitutional rights of blacks. The case Kiel Auditorium and in theaters around honor at the recognition dinner Saturday dragged on for· years . . ~ until the High town. for many years, the Republican committee- estate. He has been Sunday School Superintend woman of the 18th Ward. In the early 1950s, Bob Witherspoon was ent for more than 30 years, at Calvary, The Republican Association of North St. president of the St. Louis branch of the Na Greater CaJvary and West Side Baptist Louis and Vicinity ls sponsoring the dinner. tional Association for the Advancement of Churches, and he helped organize the Mis Walter R. Jacobs, chairman of the affair, Colored People, and it was during this souri State Sunday School and BTU Con said congratulatory messages are expected period that he was active in filing suits that gress, among other works for the church. from Sen. John Danforth, County -Execu- opened Fairgrounds Park and Lafayette His philosophy of life might be summed tive Gene McNary and former Gov. Christo- Park swimming pools to blacks. up in five words, according to his wife, Dr. pher ~· Bond. Retired Judge Nathan The U.S. District Court ruled the pools Fredda Witherspoon. The philosophy is B. Young will be a principal speaker, and open; this set off some sporadic race fights, simple, yet powerful: Curtis Crawford, a St. Louis attorney, will as the black youths came to swim. · "If I ean help somebody..• ."e present plaques to Mrs. Oldham and With- One of the plaintiffs in the pool case was erspoon. Clyde S. Cahill Jr., now Judge of Division As one source noted, Bob Witherspoon's 10, St. Louis City Circuit Court. ONE WILLING TAXPAYER "adamant cleavage to the Republican Party "I learned a great deal from him," Judge in a city heavily Democratic-oriented, his re- Cahill said last week, "his activity in the fusal to seek a permanent Judgeship or any field of law goes beyond any partisanship HON. RICHARD BOWNG city or state job, and his strict adherence to activities." OF MISSOURI his beliefs_:have not helped to propel him The city court Judge said that Wither- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f orward in the legal field . . ." spoon has "the manners and custom of a But Bob Witherspoon is his own man! ; Bob Witherspoon's proudest mo- '60s, when demonstrators had been arrested governmerit, but it will lead me to vote for ments, he said, was the famous Lloyd at sit-ins in "dime stores" and drug stores. those who will see that everyone helps pay a Gaines case, which opened the doors for "I was a little skittish," he smiled, "but I fair share of increased expenditures. legal education for blacks in Missouri~ took my daughter along with me-she was Let me take first that bete noir of my lib through the establishment of Lincoln Uni- about eight or nine years old then-and I eral friends: defense expenditures. For versity Law School, in St. Louis, and later. figured they wouldn't lynch both of us." many of them, the decisions about federal removed to Jefferson City. As it turned out, attorney Witherspoon expenditures se~ to be easy-Just cut the That case went up to the U.S. Supreme found "bootheel" Justice to be Just and after defense budget and leave social programs Court, and Witherspoon recounts that doing is "lawerin' " on behalf of the civil alone. But I am glad we are plannlng 'to in- April 21, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8483 crease our defense capability over the next hands on was somehow to be thought of as ment issued a new forecast. showing decade relative to the Soviet Union's, and entirely the result of one's own work. Obvi that the Soviet Union has been able to that shouldn't be hard to do. We have a ously, the major part of our income derives purchase enough new grain from Ar gross national product almost three times as from the collective capital that we have all gentina, Canada, and smaller produc large as theirs, and they are apparently inherited from the past. Our income comes locked into a very low-growth or n:o-grov.rth not only from our own effort but also from ers to offset all but 2 million tons of situation for many years. Now, I am an the knowledge, skills and technology that the 17 million tons of U.S. corn and . noyed by the fact that we seem to be letting other8 have developed and, for example, the wheat withheld from export. the Germans and the Japanese get away advantages we all derive froin public health One Agriculture official, trying to without paying a reasonable share of their activities and the products of our education own defense and thus increasing the total al system . ·the Soviets, in his words, "to go marketplace with my money that will do so And we not only stand on the shoulders of scrounging all over the world for · much to help create the conditions of a safe all the generations before us when we earn grain." and stable world as what the federal govern· our living, but are also dependent on the ment can do if it spends some of that money current contributions of others in a collec He called this a real inconvenience for me. tive, interdependent economic enterprise. It for the Soviets. And I feel the same way about area after seems to me, therefore, that the govern I call it a mistake, and a failure. area in the federal budget. Although it is ment, expressing the collective will of the I suggest that the inconvenience our not supported by the income tax but rather people, has the responsibility to take bacl,t by special contributions, I like the idea that for broad social purposes a significant share embargo has imposed on the Soviets is I live in a country that has a contributory of what we like- to think of as our own earn far less painful than the sacrifice we social insurance system that provides de, ings. have inflicted on American grain pro pendable and inflation proof benefits to re Anyway, I hope when the next budget is ducers and losses to our own economy. tired elderly people, the totally disabled, submitted and the focus is again · on the Trade sanctions have to be under widows and motherless and fatherless chil value of public goods versus private goods dren. I like the fact that we have a Medicare tl}at those who make the decisions will keep stood in terms of national economic program that sees that older people and to in mind that there are some of us out here priorities. At a time when Congress is tally disabled people are not made bankrupt by seri and that goes for local and state govern ing and bring the. budget into balance, ous illness. I like the "entitlement pro ments, too.e the embargo will entail the commit grams" that are supported by income taxes, too-veterans' benefits, the federal govern ment of billion5 of dollars-,....on top of ment's contribution to the unemployed, to the $2 billion already pledged to buy poor women and their children, food stamps U.S. GRAIN EMBARGO A up existing Soviet grain contracts-to for the hungry, medical care for the poor, FAILURE shore up grain producers in the years and so on. I like it that these programs are ahead. This will not make balancing "uncontrollable"; that they are a commit the budget any easier. ment in law that people can count on. HON. LES AuCOIN I want to buy more not only in these areas ._ OPOREGON There are long-term costs of politi of very large expenditures, defense and "en IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cizing-the grain trade as well. Not only titlement programs." But how can I as an do we endanger existing markets, but individual help to protect the food and drug Monday, April 21, 1980 we discourage new ones because of the supply through expendftures in the private e Mr. AUCOIN. Mr. Speaker, 3 uncertainty-the strings, if you will market? How can I buy the new knowledge months ago the United States clamped to reduce disease and promote health? How that go with buying our grain. can I buy in a way that prevents water pol an embargo on grain exports to the This could not occur at a worse time. lution and promotes clean air? I like the Soviet Union in retaliation for the in Though progress is being made to Forest Service, the Park Service ·and hun vasion of Afghanistan. build markets in Asia, including Singa dreds of other services I get for my federal At that time I Joined With many col pore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, tax dollar. I want to bu31 more of these leagues on both sides of the aisle In public goods. In my opinion, they do much supporting the need· for firm and deci and to reopen markets in China, our more toward creating the kind of world I sive responses to blatant Soviet aggres gains abroad could be undermined if want to live in than anything further I can the world perceives U.S. policy as un buy in the marketplace. sion. I welcomed the President's strong, stable when it comes to trade. Now, all was ~ot sweetness and light as I Competition with Australia for made out my tax return. I wish IRS would unequivocal statement that the Per spend more money to catch the cheaters. I sian Gulf is an area of vital Interest to Asian wheat markets is expected to be feel about them as I do about the shop the United States, that the invasion of stiff In the · 1980's, especially as fuel lifters who run up retail prices. And I am Afghanistan is a matter of gravest con prices continue to rise. Uncertainty of annoyed at waste, inefficiency and dishones cern, and that verbal condemnation of supply could become the determining ty that run up the cost of either public or the Soviet Government is not factor in whether or not we make sales private goods. I guess I am even more an noyed when it is a public agency that is at enough-that the Soviet Union must of our wheat. fault. If some of the people in the General pay a concrete price for its aggression. Trade is no gift. It is the exchange Services Administration, say, stole public However, it was in that context, Mr. of goods or services between a willing money, I would hold them to a stricter ac Speaker, that I cautioned against buyer and seller. In trade. you only counting than those private entrepreneurs turning to trade sanctions as a retali- have leverage if you are willing to caught bilking the public. Public service . atory weapon. I cautioned that before should have the highest standards, and they make an exchange. If you are not a rushing into politicizing our trade buyer will look elsewhere. In our world are usually observed. All in all, I'm greatly policy we should have a clear under pleased that less than two cents of each today, there are plenty of "else dollar contributed to the Social Security standing of the costs of our actions because trade sanctions cut both ways. wheres." program is spent on administration and 98 Mr. Speaker, if we have gained any cents-plus goes out in benefits. That's what They involve a price. So at the very I call getting my money's worth! least we ought to make sure that the thing from this embargo, it should be There was one matter above all that I price inflicted on the recipient exceeds the lesson that trade embargoes, uni found irritating on April 15: the notion I the cost we impose upon ourselves. laterally imposed, rarely work. To be kept running into in casual conversations In the case ot the grain embargo, I effective, an embargo cannot be under that "they," the government, were taking expressed doubt that it would deal a cut by other nations which have the away "my" money for "their" purposes. It same trading capa_city and choose to has always seemed to me that, almost exclu punishing blow to the Soviet economy. sively in the history of the world, the U.S. It is no satisfaction observed in ret do business as usual. government is not "they" but "us," and It rospect that the grain embargo has The grain embargo has demonstrat has always seemed to me fatuous that what failed, and for the very reasons I cited. ed that this is not an abstract theory. ever income one could manage to lay one's Last month the Agriculture Depart- It is a fact.e 8484 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 STUDENTS VISIT THE CAPITOL our warmes~ wishes for continued McCarthy, who'll celebrate his 69th birth good· health. day on February 23, has been followed into radio broadcasting by his son. Jim, Jr., CBS HON. CLARENCE D. LONG We should also thank Jim, ·Sr., for Bureau Chief in Washington, D.C ..His other training such a wonderful son, Jim, or KARYLAND children are Michael, Tom, Caroline and Jr., whom we all know in the press gal Denise. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lery as a correspondent for CBS. Jim, Monday, April 21, 1980 Jr., is one of the finest reporters on Capitol Hill and. Jim, Sr. should be Jm McCARTHY To Bz HoNouo · e Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak proud of him. · WILKF.S-BARRB.-Jim McCarthy, dean of er, I welcome 30 of the 9th and 10th The following articles include pertt- area sportscasters, Is celebrating his golden grade students from the Owings Mills anniversary in broadcasting and will be hon- Senior .High School in Maryland who, nent informat i on about the Jim Mc- ored-at a testimonial dinner on April 8 at 6 accompanied by Mr. Chuck Prunte, Carthy golden anniversary: p.m. at Genetti'& Morot Inn, Wilkes-Barre. are visiting the Capitol. McCARTHY TrsTDIONIAL Is SET roa APRIL 18 Scores of local and national sports lumi· My constituents, in connection with Jim McCarthy, dean of area sportscasters naries from the past 50 years have been in a course on American Government, and a household name in northeastern vited to attend the affair. will tour the Congress, attending com Pennsylvania sports for a half-century, will Among the speakers at the affair will be mittee meetings, and observing floor be honored at a testimonial dinner on the Fran Fisher, play-by-play announcer for occasion of his golden anniversary in broad· · Penn State University: Frank "Chic" Mara, action. . casting on Friday night, April 18, at Genet- form.er football coach and sports humorist: Mr. Speaker, I invite you and my diS ti's Motor Inn, Wilkes-Barre. · Monsignor Andrew McGowan. New York tinguished colleagues to make wel Scores of local and national sports llHlli· Jets CQach Walt Michaels, boxer Rocky Cas· come my friends from c;>wings Mills.e naries from the past fifty years have been tenant. State Senator Robert Mellow, and invited to attend the affair which starts Jim Crowley, one of the famed "four horse- wlth cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at '1. men" of Notre Dame. JIM McCARTHY, SR. Arrangements for the fete &re being made Arrangetnents for the fete are being made by a Friends of Jim McCarthy committee by a "Friends of Jim McCarthy Committee" HON. THOMAS P. ·O'NEILL, JR. which includes his co-workers at WILK which includes his co-workers from WILK Radio, where he la currently Executive Radio, where he ls curre.nt1Y executive or llASSACHUSnTS Sports Director,. as well as other long-time sports director. CompristDg the comfnittee IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES associates. The committee includes: James are James Morgan, Lee Vincent, Al Flora, Monday, April 21, 1980 Morgan, Lee Vincent, AI Flora, Sr., Frank Sr., Frank Silva. Stan Nelshel, Frank Cer Sllva. Stan Neishel, Frank Cerreta. Nestor reta. Nestor Chyl~ Rick Gaydos, Earl • Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, on Chylak, Rick Gaydos, Earl Watson. Tom Watson, Tom Jones, and Lou Delvecchio. Friday. April 18, 1980, in the city of Jones and Lou Delvecchio. McCarthy was employed by WBRE Radio Wilkes:-Barre, Pa., a man I have met A native of Plymouth, Jim actually began and Television for 28 years, serVing as sports several times on my visits to that city his career in radio as a comedian. He and director for most of that period. In that po celebrated his 50th anniversary as a the late F)'ed Jones comprised the comic sition. he not only covered the loc&l sports duo, "Glen and Dale," representing the old beat but also reported on most major na- broadcast Journalist. His name is Jim Glendale Dairy on a half-hour show. tional sports events as well. McCarthy, Sr., the executive sports di "I gUess the show wasn't too successful: In the mid-slXtleS, he served as public i'e rector for WILK Radio in Wllkes we .weren't exactly Amos and Andy,'' recalls lations director for Pagnotti Enterprises and Barre. After s·o years, he is still broad McCarthy, noting that the dairy went out was also the first public relations director at casting, doing three programs a day, of busine8s. He remembers receiving ten dol· Pocono Downs when the race track opened · and looking forward to many more 1ars for the show. in 1965. · productive years. And that .ts why I For twenty-eight years McCarthy was em· For the past 11 years, he has served as ex- want to call the attention of the ployed by WBRE Radio and television and ec~tive sports director and account execu House to this special event. most of that period served as Sports Dlrec- tive with WILK Radio. Jim McCarthy, Sr., was honored by tor of the Wilkes-Barre based facility. While McCarthy was ring announcer for the in this capacity as Sports Director, he not Pennsylvania Athletic Commission for 25 his collel(gues, contemporaries, and only covered the local sports beat but also years, handled the microphone at auto friends at a dinner party in Gus Ge most major national sports events as well. racing events at the Old Bone Stadium and nettl's Hotel. Invited were men like For thirty years he and the late Chic Feld· Roosevelt Speedway, New Jersey, and la "Sleepy Jim" Crowley, one of the man attended the presently track announcer .at Evergreen famed "Four Horsemen" of Notre World Series together. Speedway. · · Daine and Nestor Chylak,· the former In the mid-sixties he went -to work as In the late 40s, McCarthy promoted fights chief umpire for major league baseball Public Relations Director for Pagnotti En- at Westside Armory and outdoor bouts at and the president pro tempore of the terprises and a.1$0 was the first Public Rela- Artillery Park. Among his local proteges Pennsylvania Senate, Senator Martin tions Director at P~no Downs when the was Rocky Castellani who rose from a Murry and Al Flora, former manager track opened in 1965. · "four-round boxer'' to a main-event per- For the past eleven years he's served· as form.er on McCarth_y-s~red programs. of many boxing champions and con Executive Sports Director and Account Ex- McCarthy, who recently celebrated ·his tenders, and Johnny Unitas, former ecutive with WILK Radio. "My association 69th birthday, has been followed into radio quarterback of the Baltimo~e Colts, with Roy Morgan and Lee Vincent ployed as bure.,u chief of CBS in Washlnit The 50 years of Jim McCarthy, Sr., and other staff personnel at WILK have ton, D.C. He is the father of four other chll have been full ones. Starting "on the made it the happiest eleven years of my dren, Michael, Tom, Caroline, and Denise.• boards" of traveling theater groups on career,'' McCarthy points out. · Through the years, McCarthy also Pined Long Island. through motion pictures THE SETTLEMENT IN STEEL in Hollywood, NBC during the Second considerable recognition as a ring and race World War and then "back home" to track announcer as well as boxing promoter. "I even announced bingo in the thirties," he HON. BILL FRENZEL Wilkes-Barre, where h~ tried to retire: muses. but the lure of the microphone McCarthy was ring announcer for the or llINNESOTA brought him back to business. Senator Pennsylvania ·Athletic Commission for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Martin Murry presented Jim McCar twenty-five· years. In auto racing, he han thy, Sr.; with a res9lution he authored dled the "mike" at the old Bone Stadium Monday, April 21, 1980 in the Senate of the State of Pennsyl and Roosevelt Speedway and • Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, below vania honor McCarthy's golden anni la presently track announcer at Evergreen is an editorial from the Washington versary, and I Joiil in honoring this Speedway. · Post which reflects a thoughtful out man who has proven that age is McCarthy promoted fights in the late for look on the recent steel wage settle ties at Westside Armory and also outdoor merely a matter of mind. I wish Jim bouts at Artillery Park. Among his local ment, and the competitiveness of the McCarthy, Sr., many more fruitful proteges was Rocky Castellani, who rose domestic steel and automobile indus years in his chosen profession and ask from a "four-rounder boxer'' to a m.ain tries. Both major industries have. suf my colleagues to Join me in wishing event perform.er on McCarthy-sponsored fered losses of· productivity and com him the very best of good fortune and programs. petitiveness, and the hug~. wage settle- April 21, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8485 ments in both industries have helped don't have· much responsibility to bail them wnting his memoirs in which he was to to bring about those problems. out.e expose the "true face of sports in the Soviet Union." · The ·· management and the employ In late February, 1980 the New York ees' unions have made their choice of JESSIE OWENS AND VLADAS Tim~s r.an a small s~ry telling of. the death higher wages instead of more plentiful CF.SIUNAS of Vladas · Cesiunas. The report gave the jobs. Since they made that choice -·place of death as a Russian psychiatric hos- themselves, it ~ difficult for other HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI pital. The cause of death-suicide. Americans to sympathize with their Suicide! Can you believe that one? or -tLLINOIS demands for imPort restrictions. It So go sports, Soviet style. Athletes are IN THE HOUSE 01' REPRESENTATIVES valued only as long as they contribute to piakes little sense for U.S. consumers the propaganda purposes of the Communist to bail out steel and auto employees Monday, April 21, 1980 Party. When they don't, either by defection by bearing the inflationary brunt of e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker. or verbalized disenchantment, they are dis- possible import restrictions. Rev. Donald M. ·Parker, editor and posable. , The article follows: publisher of the· highly regarded The death of Vladas Cesiunas ought to speak as loudly and even more meaningfully Tm: SETTLEMENT IN STEEL ChriStian Citizen of Lansing, Ill., dedi cated his lead editorial in the April 11 to the free world than that of American The hapless steel industry has now ar sports hero Jesse Owens. One thing Vladas' rived at another huge wage settlement, nUs edition to the subject of our boycott of death says loudly and clearly is that com ing its. labor costs probably by 40 percent the Moscow Olympic games. As I munism will do and use anything-every over the next three years_ Over the past found this editorial to be especially thing-to further Its tyrannical perversion decade, wages in the steel industry have· pertinent and dramatic in its message, of truth, freedom and peace. gone up far faster than the American aver I wish to insert it at this point: With President Carter we should say NO age, and evidently they are BOW going to go [The Christi~ Citizen, Apr. 11~ 19801 to the 1980 Moscow Olympics.•· up faster than ever. In an industry with JESSIJ: OWENS AND VLADAS CEsIUNAS little growth in productivity: those rising labor costs will make American steel still HUMAN RIGHTS AND U.S. less competitive against foreign producers. Jessie Owens has been laid to rest. His MILITARY AID The industry's demands for protection Olympic running prowess in 1936 in Ger against foreign imports will get louder. many's Berlin Olympic Stadium earned the . There will be more mill closings, and the . gratitude and praise of fellow Americans. HON. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM social distress will be real. But the compa But his championship legs and heart won OF NEW YORK nies and the unions, together, are bringing him as well the anger of Adolph mtler, who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this on themselves. saw in this super black athlete a severe blow Monday, April 21, 1980 The companies explain-bitterly and accu to the then current German philosophy of rately-that because theirs is a product the Nazi super-race. And it certainly didn't e Mrs. CHISHOLM. Mr. Speaker, on basic to many others, they have traditional iilclude the likes of Jesse Owens. March 25, 1980, Archbishop Oscar A. ly been under fierce political pressure to But another Olympic great died recently, Romero of San Salvador was mur avoid strikes. This year's contract was nego and very little was said about him. Vladas dered. For the last few years, the arch tiated under a no-strike agreement that Cesiunas had an illustrious athletic career. bishop had been the leader of a group guaranteed a high settlement. The process In the 1972 Munich Olympic Games he of Jesuit priests who were in the fore seems to have become uncontrollable. came in first in the 1000 meter race for two seater canoes, together with a Russian, Lo front of the human rights movement There's beginning to be an unhappy re in this Latin American country. semblance between the steel and automobile banov. He also won four world champion industries. Both are in the middle range of ships. In 1973 and 1974 he was elected by The week before his death, the arch technology, both have been raising wages sports fans as the top Lithuanian athlete. bishop had asked President Carter in a far faster than the average, and both are In an interview with a correspondent from letter: the Lithuanian-language daily, Draugas losing important share8 of their markets to That if you really want to defend human imports. When you read about the tremen , Cesiunas dis rights, stop military aid to the Salvadoran dous layoffs in the automobile industry, and closed that he had received several Soviet Government, guarantee that your Govern the closing of Ford's big plant in New medals and the title of "meritorious physi ment will not intervene directly or indirect Jersey, you cannot help feeling sympathy cal culture worker," which entitled him to ly with military, economic, or diplomatic for the unemployed workers. But before You an old-age pension of at least 120 rubles. He pressure to determine the destihy of the Join the United Auto Workers' crusade for noted that the average Llthuanian's old age Salvadoran people. import quotas on Japanese cars, you might pension ls 12, 30 or 40 rubles. want to consider for a moment those out It certainly pays, even in the Soviet Despite this plea, the U.S. Govern sized wage increases that the UAW won last system, to be a great.athlete. Or does it? ment plans to send $5. 7 million in mili fall. On August 18, 1979 Cesiunas defected to tary aid to the Salvadoran junta. the West in Dusburg, West Germany where The following is a letter sent to the In these mature industries, disproportion he had come as a tourist to follow the world ately high wages inevitably mean fewer championship rowing races. New York Times by Ronald J. Young jobs. It's a choice, and the unions have The defector, 39, asked West German au of the American Friends Service in chosen the wages. That's fair enough-but thorities for political asylum. He- took resi Philadelphia, Pa., · questioning the it's not fair to force consumers, through dence in the town of Altena, near Dusburg, wisdom of President Carter's decision import restrictions, to pay for high-cost do and took German language lessons at the to supply further military aid to San mestic products when there are less expen Goethe Institute nearby. on· september 13, sive alternatives. Salvador: 1979 he left for school,. but never arrived. CFrom the New York Times, Apr. 8, 19801 President Carter was exactly right when After a period of time and inquiry, the he told the automobile industry, ln his press German Press Agency reported that THE U.S. WEAPONS SALVADOR'S .ARCHBISHOP conference yesterday, that there would be Cesiunas was brought to Moscow against his FEARED no protection from imported cars. Import will and placed in a Vilnius, Lithuania 'secu- PHILADELPHIA, April 3, 1980. quotas on foreign automobiles would be in rity' (psychiatric> hospital. After all, anyone To the Editor: tolerably inflationary, and would remove crazy enough to defect from the blessings of The world was shocked and saddened a the only real source of competition in the communist rule and rewards must need psy- week ago on learning of the assassination of American market. chiatric treatment. It would only be fair for Archbishop Oscar Romero, a compassionate The steel settlement illustrates a disquiet both the patient and the rest of society. prophet of justice and peace in El Salvador. ing pattern of wage increases that roll along Or, to dig a little deeper as to why Ce- People of conscience everywhere will be under their own momentum regardless of siunas was kidnapped and institutionalized, equally shocked· to learn that the United economic conditions. The country is prob consider his answer to the question as to States plans to send $5. 7 million in military ably entering a recession, and the steel com why he close to defect to the West. It was a aid to the ·Salvadoran junta, aid which the panies have a lot of aging and unneeded ca "dream since my childhood and adoles- Archbishop pleaded against because it "will pacity. But wages are leaping along as cence" he said. During his participation in without doubt sharpen the injustice and re though these were boom times in a rapidly athletic competitions abroad he saw the pression." growing industry. These very large wage in "difference between the free world and the U.S. officials in favor of the aid assume creases are only accelerating the decline in communist 'paradise'." that the governing junta is caught in the Jobs for steelworkers. It's sad. But if the When asked about the Olympic games to . middle between armed .extremists of the · unions and the companies aren't going to do be held in Moscow in 1980, Cesiunas defined right and left. An ecumenical delegation to anYthing about It, taxpayers and consumers them as "pure propaganda." He spoke of El Salvador, in which J took part on March 8486 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 22 to 25, concluded that in fact most of the Mrs. George Duerbeck, Mr. and Mrs. ceive care so poor that life would not be 900 persons killed so far this year had been Leroy Vollmer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Done worth living. victims of the army and other security lan, Mr. and Mrs. M. Fischer, Mrs. Charles RESPECT FOR PARENTAL SOVEREIGNTY HAS HERE forces often acting in concert with the sup. Davis. Mrs; William Sturm, Mr. and Mrs. BEEN CARRIED TO ABSURED, NOT TO MENTION posedly proscribed right-wing paramilitary Fred Fink, Mr. and Mrs. John Schafer, Mrs. LETHAL.LENGTHS group Orden. Mildre.d Matthews, Mrs.- Blair Fargo, Mrs. In a letter to President Carter a few weeks Naomi DeGrau, Mrs. Laura Chatman, Mrs. Worthless life? Although they assert a before his assassination, Archbishop Reese Wellenann, Mr. William Rosenberger, right to make it probable that Phillip will Romero said: "The present junta govern Mrs. Marie Muhlhan, Mr. and Mrs. Charles predecease them, they never considered al ment and above all the armed forces and se Landeck, Mrs. Bessie Lewis, Mrs. Marjorie lowing him to live at home. They say he "is curity farces unfortunately have not demon Newman, Mrs. Elsie Reich, Mrs. Henry an integral part of our family,'' but only strated their capacity to resolve the grave Bernhardt, Mrs. Betty Rock, Mrs. Sophie claim to visit him six times a year. The national problems. In general they have King, Mr. and Mrs. John Talbot, Mr. and home for handicapped children says the only reverted to repressive violence, produc Mrs. Walter Bankard, Mr. and Mrs. William visits are even fewer, that "Phillip doesn't ing a total of deaths and injuries much Fritz, and Mrs. Ellen Cranmer.e know who hls parents are," and that he greater than in recent military regimes." calls many men "Dad." For years hls par In the light of Archbishop Romero's plea ents have fought a partial and temporary to the contrary, the decision to provide mili THE CASE OF PHILLIP BECKER severance of their autonomy over a child tary aid to the Junt8l makes a mockery of they never even brought home from the President Carter's statement ·or condolence hospital and rarely see. What- might have and condemnation over the assassination of HON. WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD . been accomplished if the energy devoted to abbreviating Phillip's future had been de the Archbishop. It the President goes ahead OF MICHIGAN with military aid to El Salvador, and a simi voted to providing for it? lar package to Honduras, the United States · IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES However that may be, the Beckers' argu will be rightly condemned for persisting in a Monday, April 21, 1980 ment against surgery on the ground that it pattern of military intervention in Latin might mean Phillip might someday lead a America in support of unpopular regimes. e Mr. BRODHEAD. Mr. Speaker, I life not worth living was superseded by their Human rights for the people of El Salva want to share with my colleagues a re third argument: that his life is inherently dor and other countries of Central America markable column by George Will from not worth living. They solicited a letter whose governments a.rEfbacked by U.S. mili Newsweek on April 14. Mr. Will tells from a pediatrician who said that Phillip tary aid may be postponed once again, but leads "a life that I consider devoid of those the touching story of Phillip Becker, a qualities which give it human dignity." He finally they cannot be denied. Popular 13-year-old boy who has Down's syn movements for justice and liberty, with in said Phillip's "simple and innocent nature" creasing support from the church, may for a . drome . This case shows makes him a "natural victim" of people bent time be brutally and bloodily repressed but that many people consider the lives of on "taking his money.'' Phillip might not will eventually triumph, and new societies such children to be somehow un "fit into modem suburban society." will emerge. worthy of saving. I believe it makes a A man who talks like that should not an Unless the people of our country can force strong case for Federal support of nounce that someone else is deficient in dig a basic reappraisal and reorientation of group homes and sheltered workshops, nity. I yield to no one in my reverence for United States policy toward Latin America, which are much less costly than insti pediatricians when the subject is tonsils·and the United States is likely to reap the. whirl tutions for perpetual care and which the like, but is pediatric medicine definitive wind it has sown by a long history of short on the subject of human worth? I will not sighted and tragically inhumane policies. allow victims of Down's syndrome and speculate about the worth of those who pre The Archbishop's appeal and the testimony other retarded citizens to lead produc sume to deprecate Phillip's worth, or about of his life and death serve as clear remind tive and happier lives. the quality of life in a society that, on ers of the better policies the U.S. still might Tm: CASE OF PHILLIP BECKER "quality of life" grounds, truncates a life like Phillip's. But this is tiresome: just when choose. We who were on the ecumenical delega society is beginning to acknowledge an obli tion to El Salvador met with Archbishop The Supreme Court's refusal to hear Cali gation to nurture the significant fulfillment Romero the day before he was killed. We f omia's appeal means Phillip Becker's par of even the limited potentiallties·ot retarded were deeply impr~ssed by his hum~e vision ents have successfully asserted a right to citizens, the Becker case works to cast those and depth of concern for the suffering block lifesaving surgery. So Phillip, 13, will citizens into legal limbo as less than persons people of El Salvador. His death was a trag die prematurely, probably slowly and pain with a full right to life. edy. It must also be a turning point in the fully, perhaps suddenly, drowning in his My aim is not to demonstrate the demon struggle for human rights in Latin America. blood from bleeding into his lungs. Surely, strable: that respect for parental sovereign the reason his parents have promoted, and RONALD J. Yomm, ty has here been carried to absurd, not to Secretary, Peace Education Division, the law has allowed, this is: he ls retarded. mention lethal lengths, unthinkable were He has Down's syndrome My aim ls to CLUB it probably will kill him by 30. The pattern stress this: the idea that the value of human is progressive debilitation until reduced to a life varies with intelligence is an idea at war HON. CLARENCE D. LONG tortuous bed-to-chair existence, with head.. with our civilization's core belief in the aches, chest pains and fainting spells during intrinsic and equal value of lives. OP MARYLAND which the sufferer turns a terrifying blue Down's newborns have been allowed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES black. Already Phillip suffers attacks of starve to death in hospitals by parents who Monday, April 21, 1980 weakness and bluishness. His heart must refused consent for-surgery to correct intes work three times harder than a normal tinal blockages. In ''The Making of a Sur •Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak heart. Blood is pumped into his lungs under geon,'' William Nolan recalls a surgeon er, today I have the pleasure of meet dangerously high pressure, damaging the saying to a pediatrician that he wouldn't ing with members of the Linden lungs' thin vessels. Already he may have worry if a particular patient died during up. Heights. Golden Age Club from Balti passed the threshold of dangerous harm: coming surgery. The pediatrician replied. more who are today visiting the Cap soon his condition may be inoperable, his "Oh, now I get it. You're doing a Mongol· decline irreversible. old." The Beckers testified that one reason itol. California, which would have paid, called they never considered allowing Phillip to My friends from Baltimore will see the surgery a "necessity of life." The live with them is that they did not want the House in actio~. observing floor Beckers responded with three inharmonious him to be a "burden" to his brothers. One debate and attending committee meet arguments. They said the operation was too reason they blocked the operation was fear ings. I will be meeting with the mem risky. There are special risks in surgery with that his two brothers might have to be their bers of the Linden Heights Golden Down's children, but the risk of death in brother's-keeper. Age Club to discuss the legislative Phillip's case was well within conscionable It is often said that someone "suffers process and .the major issu~s of the range, even when not weighed against the from" Down's syndrome. But Down's people day. awful alternative certainty. Anyway, the lead happy lives when parents and other Beckers simultaneously argued against sur friends allow their own lives to be enriched Mr. Speaker, I invite you and my dis gery because of fear it would succeed. They by loving and being loved by them. The suf tinguished colleagues to Join me in said they feared he would survive them and, fering Phillip faces is premeditated and pre welcoming: bereft of their attention, might someday re- ventable, so let there be no mincing euphe- April 21, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8487 misms about "passive euthanasia." Eutha tional nuclear player for the rest of but the de facto moratoriums on new sta nasia means "pleasant death," a release the century. tions in America and West Germany are from suffering. Phillip's life is pleasant. The article follows: just as important. A boy: People ignorant about retardation, Whatever happens, it is now certain that or eager to believe the worst, often produce NUCLEAR BUSINESSMEN FIGHT To SURVIVE orders for the rest of the century will fall or seize upon excessively pessimistic progno THE 1980'S well below the industry's present capacity. ses about retarded children's potentialities. The world's nuclear industry spends its A recent series of studies, sympathetic to Those prognoses become self-fulfilling, even time leaping hurdles without getting much the nuclear cause, have shown just how fatal, when used to justify neglect. Those closer to the winning post. One fence-the poor its prospects are. Reactor manufactur who know Phillip best consider him gentle disagreement in 1977 between America and ing capacity in the seven major western sup and ptomising. His teacher says that he is its allies about the risks of fast breeder reac plier countries is, as the table overleaf "working at a very high level" for any re tors and nuclear reprocessing-has now to shows, capable of producing between 50 and tarded child. He assembles Legos and oper be taken once again. Next week will see the 60 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity ates a recorder. If allowed to live, he could culmination of the International Fuel Cycle each year. <1 gigawatt=lm kilowatts>. work in a sheltered workshop and live in a Evaluation programme (Infce>. which was An average rate of ordering between 1980 supervised group home with other retarded set up to study the technical aspects of and 1989 of around 36 gigawatts a year is kdults. He is in a Boy Scout troop. He makes President Carter's anti-proliferation propos necessary, say these studies, to produce a his bed, feeds the cat and does other chores als three years ago. total of 892 gtgawatts of installed nuclear where he lives. His taste in TV shows runs Infce will announce broad measures of capacity by 2000-a .level well below other to "Six Million Dollar Man." agreement on a host of technical subjects, typical recent forecasts . the Washington Bullets and the Baltimore about the same number of expert man Even such low figures demand a rate of Orioles. These impeccable tastes help ex nights in Vie~a. the headquarters of the ordering 42 percent higher than that plain why neighborhood children treat him exercise. It will not be able to conceal a fun achieved in the 1970s. Some of the individu as what he, like Phillip, is: a boy.e damental political disagreement about the al country figures-for example, those of future of the nuclear industry between the Canada, Sweden and America-look down American government and its allies in right implausible. In a number o/ countries, U.S. ACHIEVES SECOND PLACE IN Europe and Japan. ordering levels are likely to be below the THE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR Even if the disagreements between Amer levels of the 1970s, not above them. LEAGUE ica and its allies are eventually solved the A second, more realistic, study in the same industry will still have to cope with its un series gives a set of likely actual ordering derlying problems-some of them so serious patterns in the 1980s. The results are shown HON. JOHN W. WYDLER that in any other lines of business, they in the last two columns in the table. They OF NEW YORK would qualify the industry for the sort of indicate Just how bleak the domestic market IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES emergency resuscitation now being expen will be-except in Britain; where delays sively offered to Europe's steel and ship have kept the industry from over-expand- Monday, April 21, 1980 building industries. ing. . • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, World The acceptability of nuclear power, Export markets seem equally depressed. Business magazine recently ran an ar tugged uneasily between 1979's two big Taken together, developed and developing ticle, "Nuclear Businessmen Fight To events-Three Mile Island and the Opee markets for nuclear power are likely·to pro Survive the 1980's," which is of partic price rises-is an ever-present worry. Swe vide the capitalist world's nuclear industry den's referendum about whether to permit with between a quarter and a half of the ular interest to me since I recently re existing stations to continue, due to take level of work for which it is already ·turned from an oversight trip on nu place on March 23rd, dramatises the issue, equipped. The industry is in a mess. clear energy development in South America. The policy of technology THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY SHIVERS IN THE DARK denial that the Carter administration embarked on naively in the spring of GW per year GW per year 1977 has not resulted in any signifi Likely cant delays in the transf'er of critical Installed Historical Percent Required domestic reactor workload ordering rates workload in nuclear technology to the countries of manufacturing 1970-79 percent Brazil and Argentina; what it has pro capacity lrsls3;1 duced, however, is a massive loss of Canada ...... :...... 1.2 40 l.6 0.5-l.O 16-33 U.S. influence in nuclear affairs in France...... 4.0 57 2.0 3.4 43-57 West Germany...... 6-8 2.4 35 2.3 1-2 · 12-33 South America and a curtailment of Japan...... 6 ...... 4.9 3-4 50-67 U.S. nuclear export to these techno Sweden...... 1-2 0.6 40 0.6 0--0.5 0-50 B:itain ...... 1-2 0.4 27 1.0 0.5-l.5 50-100 logically· advanced nations. We are United States ..••.••••.•.•.••••..•••.•.••••••.•••• :...... 25-30 15.2 55 12.1 2-7 7-28 seen as an unreliable supplier of both Export markets ...... :...... 11.2 4-6 1 8-20 technology and materials, and as a Total...... 49-58 25.l 46 35.7 14-25 24-51 result these countries feel they cannot 1 To achieve 892 GW al installed capacity in 2000. depend on us for anything. Finally, of 1 course; we have lost our previous abili As percent of capacity left aftei: domestic orders met Source: columns 1-3: T. J. ConllOlly et al., World nuclear energy paths; columns 4-5: M. Lonnroth and W. Walker. The viability of the civil nuclear industry, ty to have a strong say in the techno both written for lnternatiooal Consultative Group on Nuclear Energy. logical affairs of South America. We have seen a tremendous decline As if this straightforward commercial needs and industrial structures. in our nuclear industry capability.., and problem were not enough, the industry is Neither of these results give President a loss of U.S. preeminence in breeder . also bedevilled by a host of political, social Carter any extra arguments to use on the technology since the beginning of the and geopolitical problems. The issues which Europeans and Japanese who wish to press Carter admirJstration. Brazil, Argenti Infce has beeh attempting to explore, for ahead with plutonium recycling ·and the example, weigh uranium-poor countries' fast breeder reactor. At the same time, they na, and other countries have indicated fears of shortage and the political caprices do not stop the American government from that they are puzzled by this clear re of suppliers, against uranium suppliers' making countries dependent on it for sup linquishment of first place to the fears that attempting to replace uranium plies of nuclear fuel or technology continue French in nuclear technology. We with plutonium as a nuclear fuel is helping to justify themselves in detail each time have also allowed the Germans, the the spread of nuclear weapons technology. they wish to reprocess spent fuel. Canadians, and now the Soviets to Infee seems likely to produce a technical What has really changed-a bit-is the un obtain the major fraction of the nucle "not proven" on these issues. It will con derlying attitude of the American govern ar business in South America and the clude that there is no version of the nuclear ment; in part because of the oil price rise of ground we have lost is irrecoverable. fuel cycle that is not vulnerable to prolifera 1979, in pa.rt because of Pakistan's move to tion : to industries depend or change~ in the meetings as they Foreign Relations ent on American licensing of technology To hold hearings on S. 2141, to establish : and to American reactor computerization of this information China. builders keen to sell technology abroad but becomes operational, the Office of the · 4221 Dirksen Building worried that their governments' stringency Senate Dally Digest will prepare this will drive potential customers away. 1t will information for printing in the Exten •Judiciary not undo the damage that the political un sions of Remarks section of the CON· To resume hearings on S. 2377, authoriz certainty created by the prollferation issue, GRESSIONAL RECORD on Monday and ing funds for fiscal year 1981 for pro and the way President Carter chose to grams administered by the Depart tackle it, have already caused. Wednesday of each week. ment of Justice. Perhaps the cen,tral problem of the indus Any changes in committee schedul 2228 Dirksen Building try, however, ts that as orders are delayed ing will be indicated by placement of Rules and Administration and uncertainties cloud the industry's an asterisk to the left of the name of To receive testimony on S. Res. 207, to future, the skilled engineers and craftsmen the unit conducting such meetings. create a Select Committee on Narcot assembled painstakingly over many years Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, ics Abuse and Control; and to consider will simply dissipate. They are the cream of April 22~ 1980, may be found in the other legislative and administrative a whole generation of engineers, who have Daily Digest of today's RECORD. business. devoted themselves for 30 years to the prob 301 Russell Building lem. Such experience is irreplaceable-as are the specialist subcontractors who must MEETINGS .SCHEDULED 10:30 a.m. diversify away from nucleM" power or die. · •commerce, Science, and Transportation A more embarrassing worry for the indus APRIL23 To hold hearillgs on S. 2489 authorizing try ts the gtowlng commercial coolness with 8:00a.m. funds for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 which it 1s being scrutlntsed.. One recent Appropriations for the U.S Coast Guard British study throws up clear differences in District of Columbia Subcommittee 235 Russell Building operating availabllty between reactors from To hold hearings on the administrative 2;00 p.m. different countries, and different firms. The practices and policies of the D.C. Gov 24 Westinghouse pressurised water reactors Appropriations ernment. Agriculture, RUt'al Development and Re that had been runn1rig for three years at 1114 Dirksen Building the t~e of the study had an average load lated Agencies Subcommittee Armed Services To resume hearings on proposed budget factor O.e., output as a proportion of de General Procurement Subcommittee signed output> of 'lO percent between 1975 estimates for fiscal year 1981 for pro Closed business meeting, to consider s. grams administered by the Depart and 1978. Kraftwerk Union's similar re8.c 2294, .authorizing funds for fiscal year tors achieved '19 percent, and France's 4 ment of Agriculture. 1981 for military procurement pro S-128, Capitol managed 75 percent. Japan's seven pressur grams of the DOD. ised water reactors. managed only 46 percent Armed Services in the same period Britain's 18 gas-cooled . 224 Russell Building 9:15 a.m. Research and Development Subcommittee reactors, despite some very good individual Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Closed business meeting, to consider S. perfo!1Il_ances, averaced 64 percent-and the Business meeting, to consider the nomi 2294, authorizing funds for fiscal year newer they were, the worse they did Can 1981 for milltary procurement pro ada's Cinderella reactor, the Candu, did nation of Lyle E. Gramley, of Missou ri, to be a Member of the .Board of grams of the DOD. l>etter than anything else, at 80 percent. A 224 Russell Building row about just whose stations are value for Governors of the Federal Reserve money ts the.last thing an embattled indus- System. Conferees try needs. . 5302 Dirksen Building On H.R. 3236, to remove certain work in This issue-perhaps sadly-ls unlikely to 9:30 a.m. centives for the disabled recipients of decide which of the nuclear station builders Veterans' Affairs supplemental security income survives what could well be a rapid weeding To hold oversight hearings on Veterans' benefits. out in the early 1980s. Asea-Atom in Administration programs and policies H-208, Capitol Sweden, Babcock and Wilcox and General relating ·to purchasing, implantation, Energy and Natural Resources Electric in America, Kraftwerk Union in and monitoring of cardiac pacemakers Energy Research and Development Sub West Germany, perhaps AECL in Canada, in VA hospitals for veterans. · 412 Russell Building committee - .ttave only a few years to find new orders or To resume hearings on S. 2332, authoriz consider drastic cutbacks in their nuclear Select on Intelligence ing funds fo'r fiscal years 1981 and operations. · To hold a closed business meeting. 1982 for civilian programs of the De The other American reactor companies- S-407, Capitol partment of Energy. Westinghouse ·and Combustion Engineer 10:00 a.m. · 3110 Dfrksen Building ing-will start to face pressures for re Appropriations 2:15 p.m. trenchment in the mid 1980s, if there ls no ltlterior and Related Agencies Subcommit Select on Intelligence burst of American orders soon. France's tee Framatome, Britain's Nuclear Power Com To hold hearings on proposed budget es Closed business meeting, followed by pany, and one or more of the three Japa timat.es for fiscal year 1981 for the Na- open consideration of S. 2284, pro nese suppliers all seem to have reasonably assured fu 1223 Dirksen Building intelligence activities of the United States. tures into the 1990s. Which proves that poli Appropriations tics, rather than efficiency, is likely to be 457 Russell Building Treasury, Postal Service, and General 2:30 p.m. the test that prevails. But then politics, the Government Subconunittee . industry's midwife, will also be its pall To hold hearings on proposed budget es Foreign Relations bearer.e timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Ex To hold hearings on the International ecutive Office of the President. Natural Rubber Agreement, 1979 1318 Dirksen Building -Special on Aging loans to avoid the automatic increases Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings to explore initiatives in the Federal U.I. tax, specified under to stimulate opportunities for contin To resume hearings on S. 2571, to pro current law. · ued work for older persons. vide that certain employers who suc 221 Dirksen Building 5110 Dirksen Building cessfully contest citation or penalties 10:30 a.m. under OSHA will.be awarded a reason Judiciary able attorney's fee and other litigation APRIL29 To continue hearings on S. 2377, author costs, S. 1486 and 1572, bills to exempt 9:00 a.m. izing funds for fiscal year 1981 for pro- family farms and nonhazardous small Energy and Natural Resources CXXVI-535-Part 7 8490 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 To resume hearings to assess the politi To hold hearings on S. 2015, proposed ant Secretary for Elementary and Sec cal, military, economic, and social fac Transportation Energy Efficiency Act, ondary Education, Department of tors affectlrig worl(i oil production and and on proposed amendments thereto. Education: and F. James Rutherford, consumption over the next decade. 235 Russell Building of the District of Columbia, to be As 3110 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources sistant Secretary· for Educational Re 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on the potential for search and Improvement, Department Judiciary improved automobile fuel economy be of Education. Buslness meeting, to consider pending tween 1985 and 1993. 4232 Dirks~n Building legislation and nominations. 3110 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. 2228 Dirksen Building Governmental Affairs Appropriations 10:00 a.m. •oversight of ·Government Management Military Construction Subcommittee Appropriations _ Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed Interior and Related Age~cies Subcommit To resume oversight hearings on Feder budget estimates f.or fiscal year 1981 tee al agencies spending practices that for military construction of the DOD. To hold hearings on proposed budget es occur just prior to the end of the fiscal 1223 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the year-"hurry-up spending problem" Energy and Natural Resources Heritage Conservation and Recreation focusing on administrative and legisla Business" meeting, to continue consider&· Service. tive proposals to remedy this situation. tion of S. 2332, authorizing funds for 1224 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for civilian Appropriations Veterans' Affairs programs of the Department ·of Treasvy, Postal Service, and· General Business meeting, to consider S. 2534, to Energy, and other pending calendar Government Subcommittee provide for the recruitment and reten business. To hold hearings on proposed budget es tion of qualified health-care personnel 3110 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the by the Veterans' Administration, S. Office of Personnel Management, 759, to provide for the right of the MAYl Merit Systems Protection Board, Fed United States to recover their costs of eral Labor Relations Authority, and hospital, nursing home, or outpatient 9:00a.m. the U.S. Tax Court. medical care furnished by the Veter Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 1318 Dirksen Building ans' Administration to veterans for Agricultural Research and General Legis non-service-connected disabilities to lation Subcommittee Environment and Public Works the extent that. they have· health in To hold hearings on the volatility of the •Environmental Pollution Subcommittee surance or similar contracts, and S. silver market in the future. Business meeting, to consider proposed ·1523 and H.R. 4015, proposed Veterans 324 Russell Building legislation authorizing funds for fiscal Senior Citizen Health Care Act. Energy and Natural Resources years 1981 and 1982 for the Clean 412 Russell ]Juilding To resume hearings to assess the politi Water Act, and a proposed moratori cal, military, economic, and social fac um extension of the Industrial Cost Select on Small Business To hold hearings on the Department of tors affectiilg world oil production and Recovery Program. consumption over the next decade. 4200 Dirksen Building Energy's small business research and development program. 3110 Dirksen Building Governmental Affairs 424 Russell Building 9:30 a.m. T.o resume hearings on the President's Special on Aging Appropriations proposed Reorganization Plan No. 1, To hold ·hearings to examine the effects Agriculture, Rural Development and Re to provide for the reorganization of of aging on learning and working abili lated Agencies Subcommittee the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ties. To resume hearings on proposed budget 3302 Dirksen Building 5110 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for pro Labor and Human Resourees 10:00 ~.m. grams administered by the Depart Business meeting, ·to mark up S. 1658, Appropriations ment of Agriculture. proposed Asbestos School Hazard De Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit · 1223 Dirksen Building tection and Control Act, and S. 1839, tee •Environment and Public Works proposed Higher Education Amend- To hold hearings on proposed budget es Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee ments. · timates for conservation programs of Business meeting, to consider S. 2358, 4232 Dirksen Building the Department of Energy. authorizing funds for fiscal years 1981 12:00noon 1224 Dirksen Building - and 1982 for the Nuclear Regulatory Labor and Human Resources Appropriations Commission. · Health and Scientific Research Subcom Treasury, Postal Service, and General 4200 Dirksen Building mittee Government Subcommittee •Governmental Affairs Business meeting, · to consider S. 2144, To hold hearings on proposed budget es Oversight of Government Management 2375, and 2378, bills to proyide support timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In· Subcommittee for the training of professiorials in ternational Buffet Stock Contribu To continue oversight hearings on Fed health service needs. tion-Rubber, Federal ·Election Com eral agencies ·spending practices that 4232 Dirksen Building' mission, Advisory Committee on Fed occur Just prior to the end of the fiscal 2:00p.m. eral Pay, Committee for Purchase year-"hurry-up spending problem" Appropriations from the Blind and Other Severely focusing on administrative and legisla Military Construction Subcommittee Handicapped, and the Administrative tive proposals to remedy this situa- To resume hearings on proposed budget Conference of the U.S. . tion. · estimates for fiscal year 1981 for qµll• 1318 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building tary construction of the DOD. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs •Judiciary 1223 Dirksen Building Consumer MfairS Subcommittee To resume hearing5 on S. 2377, authoriz Energy and Natural Resources To resume hearings on Title I, proposed lhg funds for fiscal year 1981 for pro Business meeting, to begin consideration Privacy Protection Amendments of grams administered by the Depart of S. 2332, authorizing funds for fiscal 1979, and Title II, proposed Fair ment of Justice. years 1981 and 1982 for civilian pro Credit Information Practices Act, of S. 2228-Dirksen Building grams of the Department of Energy, 1928, proposed Fair Financial Infor 10:00 a.m. and other pending calendar business. mation Practices Act. Appropriations 3110 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building Hl:1D-Independent Agencies -Subcommit 2:30 p.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation . tee Select on Intelligence To hold hearings on proposed legislation To hold hearings on proposed budget es To hold a closed business meeting. authorizing funds for programs under timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De 8-407, Capitol the Coastal Zone Management Act. partment of Housing and Urban De 457 Russell Building velopment. 1318 Dirksen Building APRIL30- Labor and Human-Resources 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings ·on the nominations of Appropriations Commerce, Science, and Transportation Steven A. Minter, of Ohio, to be Under Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit -Science, Technology and Space Subcom- Secretary of Education; Thomas K. tee . mittee Minter, of Pennsylvania, to be Assist- To hold hearings on proposed budget es- April 21, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8491 timates for fiscal year 1981 for the MAY5 To hold hearings on proposed budget es Land and Water Conservation Fund of 10:00 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the the Heritage Conservation and Recre Appropriations U.S. Geological Survey. ation Service. Transportation and Related Agencies Sub· 1224 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building . committee Commerce, Science, and Transportation Appropriatioris To hold hearings on proposed budget es Merchant Marine and Tourism Subcom· Treasury, Postal Service, and General timates for fiscal year 1981 for the mittee Federal Highway Administration. Government Subcommittee To hold hearings on H.R. 6613, to pro~ To hold hearings on proposed budget es · 1224 Dirksen Building hibit the regulation of collective bar· timates for fiScal year 1981 for ·the Energy and Natural Resources gaining agreements by the Federal General Services Administration. ·Energy Regulation Subcommittee · Maritime Commission. 1114 Dirksen Building To hold hearings to review the Federal 235 Russell Building gasoline allocation process. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 3110 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources · To hold hearings on S. 2492, proposed Business meeting, to continue considera Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Environment and Public Works Business meeting, to consider pending tion of S. 2332, authorizing funds for Act. calendar business. fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for civilian 235_Ru.Ssell Building 4200 Dirksen Building programs of the Department of Governmental Affairs 2:00p.m. Energy, and other pending calendar Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder Appropriations business. al Services Subconlmlttee Transportation and Related Agencies Sub 3110 Dirksen Building To.resume hearings on S. 2558, H.R. 79 committee and 826, bllls to increase the authority To hold hearings on proposed budget es Environment and Public Works of the President and Congress in timates for fiscal. year 1981 for the Business meeting, to consider pending postal operations and to provide con U.S. Coast Guard and National High <:.alendar business. tinued financial security for the Postal way Traffic Safety Administration. 4200 Dirksen Building Service. · - 1224 Dirksen Building 357 Russell Buildfug. MAYS •Labor and Human Resources MAY6 10:00 a.m. Child and Human Development Subcom 9:30 a.m. Appropriations mittee Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· To hold hearings on issues Congress Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrifica tee tion Subcommittee might consider which would affect To hold hearingS on proposed budget es youth in the coming decade. To hold oversight hearings on the activi ties of the Rural Electrification Ad timates for fiscal year 1981 for fossil 6226 Dirksen Building ministration, focusing on the opportu programs of the Department of 2:00 p.m. nities for energy conservation by rural Energy. Energy and Natur&l Resources electric co0peratives, and the effects 1224 Dirksen Building Business Meeting, to continue considera of conservation on the ability of those Energy and.Natural Resources cooperatives to remain financially tion of S. 2332, authorizing funds for Business meeting, to continue considera fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for civilian sound programs of the Department of 324 Russell Building tion of S. 2332, authorizing funds for Energy, and other pending calendar Appropriations fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for civilian business. Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re programs of the Department of 3110 Dirksen Building . lated Agencies.Subcommittee Energy, and other pending calendar To resW:ne hearings on proposed budget business. estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 3110 Dirksen Building MAY2 Department of Agriculture. Environment and Public Works · 1318 Dirksen Building 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending Agriculture• .Nutrition, and Forestry Appropriations calendar business. Agricultural Research and General Legis Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit 4200 Dirksen Building lation Subcommittee tee To continue hearings on the volatility of To hold hearings on proposed budget es MAY9 the silver market in the future. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 9:30 a.m. Room to be announced Office of Water Research and Tech nology, Department of the Interior. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 9:30 a.m. 1224 Dirksen Building ~ience, Technology and Space Subcom Commerce, Science, and Transportation Energy and Natural Resources mittee Science, Technology and Space Subcom Business meeting, to resume considera To resume hearings on S. 2015, proposed mittee tion of S. 2332~ authorizing funds for Transportation Energy Efficiency Act, To resume hearings on S. 2015, proposed fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for civilian and on proposed amendments thereto. Transportation Energy Efficiency Act, programs of the Department of 235 Russell Building and on proposed amendments thereto. Energy, and other pending calendar 235 Russell Building business.· MAY13 3110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Environment and Public Works Appropriations HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit Business meeting, to consider pending tee calendar business. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit tee To continue · hearings on proposed 4200 Dirksen Building budget . estimates for fiscal year 1981 2:00p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es· for the Department of Housing and Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na Urban Development. Military Construction Subcommittee tional Park Service. 1318 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget 1224 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili Energy and Natural Resources tary construction of the DOD. Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to continue considera 1223 Dirksen Building Business meeting, to resume considera· tion of S. 2332, authorizing funds for tion of S. 2332, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for civilian MAY7 fiscal years 1981 and 198.2 for civilian programs of the. Department of 10:00 a.m. programs of the Department ·of Energy, and other pending calendar Appropriations Energy, and other pending calendar business. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit business. 3110 Dirksen Building tee 3110 Dirksen Building 8492 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 21, 1980 Special on Aging HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit JUNE 11 tee To resume hearings to explore initia 9:30 a.m. tives to stimulate opportunities for To continue hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 •veterans' Affairs continued work for older persons. · for the Department of Housirig and To hold oversight hearings on the activi 6226 Dirksen Building Urban Development, and Independent ties of the Inspector General of the Agencies. Vetera.RS' Administration. MAY.14 1318 Dirksen Building 412 Russell ~uilding 10:00 a.m. Appropriations MAY20 CANCELLATIONS Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· 10:00 a.m. APRIL23 tee Appropriations 2:00 p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De· Interior-and Related Agencies Subcommit tee Military Construction Subcommittee partment of the Interior. To continue hearings on proposed 1223 Dirksen Building To Hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Appropriations Office of the Secretary and the Office for military construction of the DOD. Transportation Subcommittee of the Solicitor, Department of the In- 1224 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget terior. · APRIL24 estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 1223 Dirksen Building Department of Transportation. 10:00 a.m. 1224 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation MAY21 Science, Technology, and Space Subcom Energy and Natural Resources mittee Business meeting, to continue considera 9:00 a.m. Business meeting, to consider S. 2238, tion of S. 2332, authorizing funds for •veterans' Affairs To resume hearings on the Federal Gov authorizing additional funds for fiscal fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for civilian year 1980, and S. 22400 authorizing programs of the Department of ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam-era funds for fiscal year 1981, both for re Energy, and other pending calendar veterans in readjusting to society, and the use of excepted appointments for search and development programs of business. the National Aeronautics and Space 3110 Dirksen Building disabled veterans. Administration. 412 Russell Building 235 Russell Building MAY15 MAY22 . 2:00p.m. 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Appropriations 9:30 a.m. Military Construction Subcommittee HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit Labor and Human Resources To continue hearings on proposed tee Child and Human Development Subcom· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 To resume hearings on proposed budget mittee. for military construction of the DOD. estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the To hold oversight hearings to examine 1224 Dirksen Building Department of Housing and Urban issues affecting infant mortality, and Development, and Independent Agen preventable birth defects. cies. · 423_2 Dirksen Building APRIL25 1318 Dirksen Building Appropriations MAY29 10:00 a.m. Transportation Subcommittee Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 9:30 a.m. tee · for the Department of Transportation. •veterans' Affairs To hold hearings on proposed budget es 1224 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed legislation timates for fiscal year 1981 for the to establish a cost-of-living increase Office of Surface Mining Reclamation MAY16 for service-connected disability com and Enforcement, Department of the 10:00 a.m. pensation. Interior. Appropriations 412 Russell Building 1114 Dirksen Building